State v. Steele’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

9 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““[W]hen a policeman has made a lawful custodial arrest of the occupant of an automobile, he may, as a contemporaneous incident of that arrest, search the passenger compartment of that automobile. “It follows from this conclusion that the police may also examine the contents of any containers found within tire passenger compartment, for if the passenger compartment is within reach of tire arrestee, so also will containers in it be within his reach. Such a container may, of course, be searched whether it is open or closed.” 132 Idaho at 699 .”

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