State v. Sanders’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

26 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “once law enforcement officers are inside an area, including a home. Once inside an area a law enforcement officer may perform a warrantless 'protective sweep,' that is, 'a quick and limited search of premises, incident to an arrest and conducted to protect the safety of police officers or others.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 331 Wis. 2d 171 - State v. Ayala

2. “when the officer is lawfully in a position to observe the evidence, the evidence is in plain view of the officer, the discovery is inadvertent, and the item seized in itself ... provides probable cause to believe there is a connection between the evidence and criminal activity.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 383 Wis. 2d 785 - State v. Adams

3. “'a reasonable belief based on specific and articulable facts which, taken together with the rational inferences from those facts, reasonably warranted the officer in believing that the area swept harbored an individual posing a danger to the officer or others.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 2009 WI App 96 - State v. Lee