State v. Fausel’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

34 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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The police, in order to avail themselves of this exception, must have valid reasons for the belief that an emergency exists, a belief that must be grounded in empirical facts rather than subjective feelings. . . . It is an objective and not a subjective test. The test is not whether the officers actually believed that an emergency existed, but whether a reasonable officer would have believed that such an emergency existed.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Ryder · State v. Jackson

2. “[t]he emergency exception to the warrant requirement allows police to enter a home without a warrant when they have an objectively reasonable basis for believing that an occupant is seriously injured or imminently threatened with such injury.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Ryder · State v. Jackson

3. “[a]s one court usefully put it, the question is whether the officers would have been derelict in their duty had they acted otherwise”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Ryder · State v. Jackson