State v. James’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

47 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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “protects everyone's right to be secure in his or her person and not subject to unreasonable searches by the government.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 56 Kan. App. 2d 410 - State v. Salazar · 56 Kan. App. 2d 530 - State v. Ritchey

2. “may only be declared harmless when the party benefitting from the error proves beyond a reasonable doubt that the error did not affect the outcome of the trial in light of the entire record.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Thornton