State v. Hiott’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 federal appellate · 2 district · 40 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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Once the defendants had escaped unlawfully from prison, they abandoned their only legitimate premises and surrendered any future legitimate expectation of privacy. “It follows that appellant’s Fourth Amendment rights were no greater as an escapee than they were while he was within the confines of the penitentiary. He had lost his constitutional protection against the invasion of his privacy and had no standing to object to a search of his (motel) room and his effects by the officers.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. United States v. Gutierrez-Casada

2. ““An attempt to commit robbery has been defined as the doing of acts toward the commission of robbery, and with such intent, but faffing short of actual perpetration of the completed offense;____”77 C.J.S. Robbery § 60. “[I]t must appear that the circumstances were such that the crime would have been robbery had the attempt been successful.” 77 C.J.S. Robbery § 61.”

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

3. “the United States Supreme Court has recently shifted away from a `standing' approach to an inquiry focusing directly on the substantive issue of whether the claimant possessed a `legitimate expectation of privacy' in the area searched.”

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