State v. Cotterell’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

20 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[1] is employed, the privacy expectations that society is prepared to recognize as reasonable ultimately turn out to be the privacy expectations that a majority of the members of this Court decide are reasonable. It is doubtful that we are qualified or equipped to make such proclamations, especially in the absence of a factual record telling us what society's views and expectations are. Moreover, as applied in the present case, the”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Allen

2. “Where a person has gone to considerable trouble to keep activities and property away from prying eyes, the person evinces a subjective expectation of privacy in those activities and that property.”

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

3. “[t]he right of individual privacy is essential to the well-being of a free society and shall not be infringed without the showing of a compelling state interest.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Allen