State v. Garcia’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

18 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[T]he nighttime search ... was conducted upon people who were observed to be active in the nighttime. It was based on probable and reasonable cause that had just recently been developed, again in the nighttime. It bears emphasis that this is not a ease in which the police developed probable cause during business hours and then waited until nighttime, when they believe people will be asleep, to execute the warrant. The intrusiveness of the nighttime search ... is considerably lessened because of these circumstances, making the showing of necessity sufficient under constitutional scrutiny.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. KATRINA G.

2. “`We review the affidavit by giving it a common-sense reading, considering the affidavit as a whole, to determine whether the issuing judge made an . . . independent determination of probable cause,'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Nyce

3. “[T]he failure to establish reasonable cause for issuance of a nighttime search warrant ... is tantamount to an unreasonable, and therefore unconstitutional, search.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Santiago