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

1. “[i]f a vehicle is readily mobile and probable cause exists to believe the vehicle contains contraband or evidence of a crime, the Fourth Amendment does not require a warrant for police to search the vehicle”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. State v. Torres

2. “The rationale for that definitive rule was that, in this state at that time, the smell of marijuana was always evidence of illegal activity.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. 55 Kan. App. 2d 141 - State v. Hadley

3. “[t]he right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. 59 Kan. App. 2d 28 - State v. Smith