State v. Pennington’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

12 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Obviously, the securing of a warrant is unnecessary where consent to the search has been freely given. Likewise, as long as no constitutional right has been violated, it is wholly immaterial that the purpose of the search is to obtain evidence against the person consenting thereto so that an arrest could be made.””

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