State v. Gero’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “If an officer in the execution of a search warrant, or by some other authorized method, finds property or articles he is empowered to take, he shall seize and safely keep them under the direction of the court or justice so long as necessary to permit them to be produced or used as evidence in any trial. Upon application... the court... shall, upon notice to a defendant and hearing, and except for good cause shown, order returned to the rightful owner[]. . . any other property of evidential value not constituting contraband.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Cohen · State v. Pessetto