Richardson v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

33 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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The Supreme Court has specifically held that “an arrest may not be used as a pretext to search for evidence.” United States v. Lefkowitz, 285 U.S. 452 (1932). ... It is settled law that “when it appears, as it does here, that the search and not the arrest was the real object of the officers in entering upon the premises, and that the arrest was a pretext for or at the most an incident of the search,” the search was not reasonable within the meaning of the Constitution. Henderson v. United States, 12 F.2d 528 (4th Cir. 1926).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 44 Ark. App. 112 - Miller v. State

2. “In these cases, the search is the real purpose of the police and the arrest, usually on a minor offense or traffic violation, is merely a subterfuge to obtain the search authority ancillary to arrest.”

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