2007 UT App 166 - State v. Messer’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Illinois v. Rodriguez · United States v. Edwards · Lyng v. Northwest Indian Cemetery Protective Assn. · Alfred Dunhill of London, Inc. v. Republic of Cuba · Lindsay v. Beneficial Reinsurance Co.
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[b]ecause the officers could have, at the very least, reasonably believed that [the property owner] had authority to consent to a search of the car trunk and its contents.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Harding“By leaving his bag in the possession and control of [a third party], defendant assumed the risk that [the third party] would allow the authorities access to the bag.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Harding“[I]n leaving the bags in Hasch's car on Hasch's property, [d]efendant took the risk that Hasch might not maintain [defendant's privacy interest in the bags.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Harding
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.