160 Md. App. 647 - Nieves v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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6 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[w]e accept as axiomatic the principle that people harbor a reasonable expectation of privacy in their 'private parts' " and the corollary "belief that people have a reasonable expectation not to be unclothed involuntarily, to be observed unclothed or to have their 'private' parts observed or touched by others.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 242 Md. App. 212 - Faith v. State

2. “A strip search is permissible only if the official has an individualized suspicion that an arrestee is hiding weapons or contraband. This suspicion must relate to the “individual,” not a “category of offenders,” such as drug users.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 196 Md. App. 384 - State v. Harding