State v. Erdman’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

11 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““8. If a search is unlawful, the discovery of evidence against one suspected of a violation of law does not make it lawful. The search is either good or bad when it starts, and the result of the search does not determine whether it was reasonable or unreasonable.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Howe