State v. Hand’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

12 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The standard of review for suppression rulings is whether the law was correctly applied to the facts, viewing them in a manner most favorable to the prevailing party. We review the district court’s purely factual assessments to determine if the fact-finder’s conclusion is supported in the record by substantial evidence. Then, while deferring to the [district] court with respect to factual findings and indulging all reasonable inferences in support of the [district] court’s decision, we review the constitutional question of the reasonableness of a search and seizure de novo.”

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