State v. Conaway’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

25 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Should, however, the police network fail to have sufficient collective information to establish probable cause (e.g., the initial arrest warrant is defective), then the arrest is illegal.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Knapp v. Commissioner of Public Safety · Johnson v. Morris

2. “While, as a matter of policy, joinder made sense in this case, it is stretching things to say that the two offenses were part of a single course of conduct. Although joinder may have been technically improper under the rule, it was not, however, prejudicial. The evidence of each offense would have been admissible Spreigl evidence in the trial of the other, and the trial court so held. * * * Thus, there was no prejudicial error in joinder.”

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

3. “An arresting officer may rely on all collective information in the police department, and, acting in good faith on the basis of such information, may assume at the time of apprehension that proba ble cause has been established. Thus, an officer * * *, who in good faith relies on such collective information, is legally justified to make an arrest.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Knapp v. Commissioner of Public Safety