Chapman v. State’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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““An incidental search should be, as the term implies, incidental to the arrest. The primary purpose should be to arrest and the search should be purely incidental to it. An exploratory search is one in which the search is primary and the arrest is used as a pretext to justify the search.””

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Wilson v. State · Lowe v. State

2. ““. . . only necessary for us to find that the testimony of the police officers who made the arrest and conducted the search showed that their primary purpose was to discover evidence to be used against the defendant...” Chapman v. State, supra.”

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