Hoyer v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 federal appellate · 54 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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “' “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures shall not be violated; and no warrants shall issue but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched and the persons or things to be seized.””

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Wilder v. Miller · State v. Baltes

2. ““We see no reason in logic, justice, or in that innate sense of fair play which lies at the foundation of such guaranties, why a court of justice, rejecting as abhorrent the idea of the use of evidence extorted by violation of a defendant’s right to be secure in person and exempt from self-incrimination though it may result in murder going unwhipt of justice, should yet approve of the use, in the same court of justice, by state officers, of that which has been obtained by other state officers through, and by, a plain violation of constitutional guaranties of equal standing and value, though thereby possibly a violation of . . . law may go unpunished.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Eason · State v. Cox

3. “Sec. 8 [Art. I of the Wisconsin Constitution] corresponds in substance with art. V and sec. 11 is identical with art. IV respectively, of the amendments to the United States constitution.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Brian L. Halverson · 136 Wis. 2d 195 - State v. Hanson