State v. Utvick’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

19 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “(1) when the issuing magistrate was misled by false information intentionally or negligently given by the affiant; (2) when the magistrate totally abandoned her judicial role and failed to act in a neutral and detached manner; (3) when the warrant was based on an affidavit “so lacking in indicia of probable cause as to render official belief in its existence entirely unreasonable”; and (4) when a reasonable law enforcement officer could not rely on a facially deficient warrant.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Roth v. State · State v. Leavitt

2. “Merely alleging the presence of marijuana and methamphetamine does not allow one to infer the drugs were easily disposable.”

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