State v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

22 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “While some federal cases cited by the parties note that it is better to provide information about an informant’s criminal past, or to at least disclose that the informant may have been involved in the criminal activity he is informing about, such information is not required in order to avoid misleading the [warrant-issuing judge]. Indeed, other cases have noted that most informants could not obtain the information they have about a criminal activity unless they were involved in it. A [warrant-issuing judge] will often assume that the'informant was involved, and that this is how the information was acquired. The [warrant-issuing judge] is thus not misled by the failure to mention the informant’s criminal history.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State of Missouri v. Wyatt M. Mitchell

2. “[The record] does not indicate that Defendant obtained management's permission to stay past 11 a.m., or that he asked to stay to any particular time of day. In the absence of evidence of motel permission to stay or of a prior pattern or practice of the motel of allowing guests to stay past check-out time, Defendant's reasonable expectation of privacy in the room ended at check-out time even if he and his possessions still remained in the room. The motel staff would have had a right to enter at any time to evict him or to prepare the room for the next guest.”

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

3. “he or she has the burden to show a legitimate expectation of privacy in the place or thing being searched”

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