State v. Saddler’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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

1. “an analysis of the totality of the cireumstances requires us to consider the three factors articulated by this court in Kaysville City v. Mulcahy, 943 P.2d 231, 235-36 (Utah Ct.App.1997)[,]”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Saddler · 2003 UT App 389 - State v. Dable

2. “"[TJhis court, like the reviewing court below, is bound by the contents of the affidavit, we therefore need not defer to the trial court's finding. . .." Instead, " 'we make an independent review of the trial court's determination of the sufficiency of the written evidence'" "However, 'the [FJourth [AJmendment does not require that the reviewing court conduct a de novo review of the magistrate's probable cause determination[.] [Instead, it requires only that the reviewing court conclude "that the magistrate had a substantial basis for ... [determining] that probable cause existed."'" We therefore "pay great deference to the magistrate's determination."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 2003 UT App 389 - State v. Dable

3. “make a practical, common-sense decision whether, given all the cireumstances set forth in the affidavit before him, including the 'veracity' and 'basis of knowledge' of persons supplying hearsay information, there is a fair probability that contraband or evidence of a crime will be found in a particular place.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 2003 UT App 389 - State v. Dable