Scott v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

9 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[W]hile the police may not impound a car to search for contraband, they may impound a vehicle if they must take charge of it for some reason. And ultimately, the test for the validity of the police's conduct is whether, under the circumstances then confronting the police, their conduct was reasonable within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. STROUD v. the STATE. · The State v. McCloud.

2. “an officer is not required to ask the owner what [he] would like to do with [his] car when the owner has been arrested and there is no one present at the scene to take custody of the car and safely remove it.... Although the officer did not inquire whether [McCloud] could make other arrangements for the retrieval of [his] car, he was not required to do so. ... This is especially true when the vehicle impedes or poses a potential danger to traffic.”

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

3. “they may inventory its contents to protect the property of the owner and to protect the officers from potential danger and against claims for lost or stolen property”

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