State v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

70 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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “or exigent circumstance, is, in their words, the need to”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 6 Va. App. 507 - Servis v. Commonwealth · Washington v. Commonwealth

2. “"[R]ules of law designed to protect citizens against unauthorized or illegal searches or seizures of their persons, property, or private effects are to be given effect by denying the state the use of evidence secured in violation of those rules against the persons whose rights were violated, or, in effect, by restoring the parties to their position as if the state's officers had remained within the limits of their authority."”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Kitzman · State v. Mansor

3. “). "[E]vidence is suppressed for violations of the Oregon Constitution `to preserve ... rights to the same extent as if the government's officers had stayed within the law.'”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Snyder · State v. Savinskiy