State v. Belmontes’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “A trial court's findings of fact from a suppression hearing must be upheld unless they are clearly erroneous. This Court's function under the clearly erroneous standard is to determine whether the decision of the lower court lacks the support of substantial evidence, evolves from an erroneous view of the applicable law or whether, considering the entire record, we are left with a definite and firm conviction that a mistake has been made. In making this determination, we review the evidence in a light most favorable to the trial court's decision.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Hullinger · State v. Aaberg

2. “evidence is admissible when police officers reasonably rely on a warrant that is subsequently invalidated because a judge finds there was an insufficient basis for the issuing magistrate to find probable cause”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. State v. Boll

3. “[t]his good faith inquiry is limited to the `objectively ascertainable question of whether a reasonable well trained officer would have known that the search was illegal despite the magistrate's authorization'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. State v. Boll