146 Ohio App. 3d 749 - State v. Reniff’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Although the United States Constitution requires search warrants to issue only upon probable cause, Gates requires a reviewing court to defer to an issuing judge's discretion when deciding whether a warrant was validly issued. Thus, even though the existence of probable cause is a legal question to be determined on the historical facts presented, we will uphold the warrant if the issuing judge had a substantial basis for believing that probable cause existed.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Kelly, 91137 (3-5-2009)

2. “that the person or thing to be seized would be at the place to be searched. Id. Only after that determination, may a reviewing court then advance to the good faith exception to the exclusionary rule. Id. Indeed,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Harry, Ca2008-01-013 (12-8-2008)

3. “even though it might [seem] * * * unnecessary to determine the existence of probable cause, it is always necessary to determine whether there is any reasonable argument to support probable cause.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Harry, Ca2008-01-013 (12-8-2008)