State v. Kao’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

15 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution and Article II, section 11 of the Montana Constitution provide for the right of the people to be secure in their persons, papers, homes and effects from unreasonable searches and seizures .... “The physical invasion of the home is the chief evil to which the Fourth Amendment is historically directed. “ ‘In terms that apply equally to seizures of property and to seizures of persons, the Fourth Amendment has drawn a firm line at the entrance to the house. Absent exigent circumstances, that threshold may not reasonably be crossed without a warrant.’ Pryton v. New York (1980), 445 U.S. 573 , 100 S.Ct. 1371 , 63 L.Ed.2d 639 . “. . . [T]he fact that an entry is made at night raises particular concern over its reasonableness. Although crime has become an increasingly serious problem, . . . the right of officers to thrust themselves into a home is also a grave concern, not only to the individual but to a society which chooses to dwell in reasonable security and freedom from surveillance.””

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