Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “* * Were the appellant’s constitutional protections against unreasonable search and seizure violated by the officers thus obtaining the articles from the •trailer and detailing the evidence concerning same? Here, there was evidence, not only of waiver and consent, but also of active participation in the search; so there is no merit to the contention of the defendants that their rights against unreasonable search and seizure were violated insofar as concerns the articles in the trailer. In 79 C. J. S. p. 816 et seq., ‘Searches and Seizures’ § 62, there is a discussion of waiver and consent; and the holdings from the various jurisdictions — including the United States Supreme Court — are summarized: “The constitutional immunity from unreasonable searches and seizures may be waived, as by a voluntary invitation or consent to a search or seizure. Thus individuals may waive their immunity to illegal searches of their persons, possessions, or dwelling houses, as well as to the illegal search of their premises, places of business, and searches and seizures of books, papers, or records. Hence, one who has thus consented to a search cannot thereafter complain of irregularities in the search warrant, or question its sufficiency or the manner of its issuance, since an invitation or consent to the search dispenses with the necessity of a search warrant altogether. ’ ’”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Mann v. City of Heber Springs · Dokes v. State

2. ““* * * so such search, though illegal, obtained no evidence; and thus the search of the Holeman house passes out of the case. If any evidence had been obtained in the Holeman house we would promptly hold that such was illegally obtained. ’ ’”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Mann v. City of Heber Springs

3. ““ . . evidence illegally obtained is not admissible in the State courts, regardless of the previous holding of the State courts on this point.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Petty v. State