State v. Carter’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"No law shall violate the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable search, or seizure; and no warrant shall issue but upon probable cause, supported by oath, or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the person or thing to be seized."”

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

2. “permit[s] the officers to seize evidence without a warrant if, in the course of executing [the] search warrant and while they were in a place where they had a right to be, they had probable cause to believe that evidence that they saw was either contraband or evidence of a crime.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. State v. Mansor

3. “we consider the 'specific wording of Article I, section 9, the case law surrounding it, and the historical circumstances that led to its creation.'”

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