2 Smith & H. 40 - Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 16 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ ‘The policeman, above all officers, requires the protection of arms. His duty is not like sheriff and constables, to serve process, and make such arrests as required. He is a watchman, both by day and night, in our cities, to seek for probable offenders and offenses, and to arrest parties guilty, as the guardian of the homes and business houses of our people living in cities, charged with watching for offenders, both by day and night, and especially at night. He is entitled to the utmost liberality in the construction of the statute in his favor. ’ “The security and safety of residents of a city is dependent upon the faithful performance of the duty so described on the part of the members of a metropolitan police force.””

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

2. “"The discovery of the containers and the disarrangement of the cushion of the rear seat, in connection with the fact that the automobile was parked in a dark alleyway, when it might have been left in the street, under the protection of street lights, were sufficient to create a reasonable belief that the automobile was being used for an unlawful purpose, most probably the transportation of whisky. This belief, reasonably grounded, made it the duty of the policeman to search the automobile, and the search so made was not unreasonable, and therefore was not in violation of the constitutional provision invoked."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 89 So. 2d 867 - Gaskins v. State