State v. Blakely’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

9 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “We agree with the proposition of law insisted on by plaintiff in error to the effect that a wife as such is without any inherent authority to bind her absent husband by waiving the production of a legal search warrant for her husband's premises, or by consenting to an unauthorized search of the husband's dwelling house without his permission.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 291 So. 2d 195 - Dees v. State

2. “Testimony at the hearing on appellee's motion to suppress indicated that appellee had rented the apartment himself and paid the rent and utilities himself. His wife was unemployed and made no contribution at all to the rent or utilities payments.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 291 So. 2d 195 - Dees v. State

3. “What appellant asks us to hold is that the husband and wife relationship implies authority in the wife to waive her husband's constitutional right to a search warrant. Fla. Const.D.R. § 12 (1968), F.S.A.U.S.Const. Amend. 4 § 5.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 291 So. 2d 195 - Dees v. State