Voss v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 federal appellate · 8 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. ““It further appears that at the time of the arrest a number of incriminating items were found in Voss’ room. * * * In view of the incriminating articles found by the officers when they first entered the room, they would he fully justified in believing that the other occupants of the room were also implicated in the felony. This being true the arrest of Voss and the Jones’ woman was lawful without a warrant. It is settled under all our decisions that an officer may make a search without a warrant as an incident to a lawful arrest. Van Pelt v. State, 193 Tenn. 463 , and cases cited on page 472, 246 S.W.(2d) 87 , on page 90 and also this right to search is not restricted to the person of a prisoner but to his immediate surroundings. United States v. Rabinowitz, 339 U.S. 56, 57 , 70 S.Ct. 430 , 94 L.Ed. 653, 655 .””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. White v. State

2. “The question of whether a search is reasonable cannot be determined by any fixed formula and the Constitution does not define what are "unreasonable" searches. Reasonableness of searches must be resolved upon the facts and circumstances of each case.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 349 So. 2d 1059 - Crum v. State