State v. Gagnon’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently May 2020 · most notably State v. Finan (2005), 36 Conn. App. 417 - State v. Jaynes (1994)
48 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Simmons v. United States · Neil v. Biggers · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Jones v. United States · Manson v. Brathwaite
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The fourth amendment to the United States constitution provides that a warrant must particularly [describe] . . . the persons or things to be seized.' A particular description of the item to be seized is necessary to avoid a general exploratory rummaging in the search. Coolidge v. New Hampshire , 403 U.S. 443 , 467 , 91 S.Ct. 2022 , 29 L.Ed.2d 564 (1971). In determining whether a warrant is sufficiently particular in describing an item to be seized, a number of factors are relevant, namely, the purpose for which the warrant was issued, the relevance of the item to the crime charged, and the total circumstances surrounding the case. Marron v. United States , 275 U.S. 192 , 196 , 48 S.Ct. 74 , 72 L.Ed. 231 (1927). The warrant must be sufficiently definite so that the officer executing it can identify the property sought with reasonable certainty. Id." State v. Gagnon , 18 Conn. App. 694 , 709-10 , 561 A.2d 129 , cert. denied, 213 Conn. 805 , 567 A.2d 835 (1989). While the warrant must describe the objects of the search with "reasonable specificity, [it] need not be elaborately detailed. . . . Nor must the warrant enable authorities to minutely identify every item for which they are searching. . . . Thus, a description is valid if it is as specific as the circumstances and the nature of the activity under investigation permit. (Citations omitted.)" (Internal quotation marks omitted.) State v. Ruscoe , 212 Conn. 223 , 234 , 563 A.2d 267 (1989), cert. denied. 493 U.S. 1084 , 110 ”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the defendant's conduct constituted physical coercion. By using a subterfuge of being a police officer, the defendant caused the victim to stop her vehicle. Such coercion was intended to and did in fact place the victim in a position wherein she was compelled to submit to sexual contact by the defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.