State v. Allen’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Precedents can be found in the lawbooks that the forcible abstraction of a defendant’s property will bar its use as evidence in a criminal prosecution, but the well-reasoned majority view, which is to the contrary, is tersely stated in 1 Wharton on Criminal Evidence, 11th ed., section 271, in part, as follows: “ ‘Many jurisdictions support the proposition that the admission in evidence of shoes taken forcibly from the person of one under arrest for commission of a crime, or of the result of a comparison of the tracks with the shoes so obtained, for the purpose of identifying him with the person who made tracks found near the scene of the crime, does not violate the rule against self-incrimination. It has also been held that the constitutional provision against unreasonable searches and seizures does not prevent the introduction of evidence of a comparison of footprints with shoes forcibly taken from one accused of crime.’ (p. 344.)” (p. 719.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Dodson