26 Utah 2d 318 - State v. Richards’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
14
cited by 14 later decisions
2
states following
March 1978
most recently cited
14 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Carroll v. United States · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Chambers v. Maroney · Sedillo v. United States · Cooper v. State of California
Most-quoted passages
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“The question to be answered is whether under the circumstances the search or seizure is one which fair-minded persons, knowing the facts, and giving due consideration to the rights and interests of the public, as well as to those of the suspect, would judge to be an unreasonable or oppressive intrusion against the latter’s rights.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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