Payton v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

10 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “An appellate court’s standard of review of the trial court’s decision on a motion to suppress requires that we first determine whether the trial court’s findings of fact are supported by substantial evidence. If they are, then they are conclusive. Based on those findings of fact, we must then conduct a de novo review of the trial court’s application of the law to those facts to determine whether its decision is correct as a matter of law.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Lundy v. Commonwealth

2. “he withdrew his wife's consent to search the house. Id. The court denied his motion and the defendant appealed. Id. ¶38 The Supreme Court of Kentucky affirmed the trial court's denial of the motion to suppress. Id. at 470 . The Kentucky Supreme Court concluded that the defendant”

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

3. “The standard for measuring the scope of a suspect's consent under the Fourth Amendment is that of 'objective' reasonableness——what would the typical reasonable person have understood by the exchange between the officer and the suspect?”

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