168 Conn. App. 62 - State v. Kinch’s Empirical Analysis

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4 state decisions

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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. “defined a defendant's burden to establish standing to challenge the search of a motor vehicle in which the defendant is only a passenger, and it consolidated principles related to determining whether a defendant had a reasonable expectation of privacy in such a vehicle in order to establish standing.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 170 Conn. App. 269 - State v. Brito

2. “[T]here is no basis on which the court could find that the defendant satisfied his burden of proving the existence of a reasonable expectation of privacy in the area of the vehicle searched. He thus lacked standing to challenge the legality of [the search of a vehicle in which he was a passenger].”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 170 Conn. App. 269 - State v. Brito

3. “The burden of proving the existence of a reasonable expectation of privacy rests on the defendant.... Absent such an expectation, the subsequent police action has no constitutional ramifications.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 170 Conn. App. 269 - State v. Brito