State v. Travison B.’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

14 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “societal interests ... do not countenance an attack on police officers, provided that the officers were acting ‘within the scope of what [they were] employed to do.’ [Doe, 583 P.2d at 467 ]. When an officer is so acting, societal interests dictate the protection of the officer from attack by someone who may question, albeit reasonably, the legality of the officer’s actions. 4”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. James Ex Rel. Murphy v. Chavez Ex Rel. Mayor of Albuquerque

2. “[a]lthough precipitated by the [unlawful] entry, [c]hild's actions against the officers constituted new criminal activity that is not subject to the exclusionary rule.”

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