State v. Gant’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

11 federal appellate · 37 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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[t]o read Belton as authorizing a vehicle search incident to every recent occupant’s arrest would ... untether the rule from the justifications underlying the Chimel exception — a result clearly incompatible with our statement in Belton that it “in no way alters the fundamental principles established in the Chimel case regarding the basic scope of searches incident to lawful custodial arrests.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. United States v. Rucees · United States v. Adrick Ruckes

2. “stretches [the doctrine] beyond its breaking point.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. State v. Williams, 22924 (4-3-2009) · State v. Adams

3. “the justifications underlying Chimel no longer exist because the scene is secure and the arrestee is handcuffed, secured in the back of a patrol car, and under the supervision of an officer,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Arizona v. Gant