State v. Maulding’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “It was reasonable for the officers to accept the evidence of their senses and to conclude that a house that looks like an ordinary one-family house is what it appears to be.”

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

2. “additional investigation might have produced additional facts, ... the Fourth Amendment requires reasonableness, not certainty.”

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