State v. Mattison’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 federal appellate · 64 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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The issue of voluntary consent, when contested by contradicting testimony, is an issue of credibility to be determined by the trial judge.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Alston · State v. Hardin

2. “When I got around to the waistband area, [Mattison] kept, in a nervous manner, reaching his hands back down, which led [to] more suspicion that there might be something down there. He kept putting them down. I told him several times, ‘Keep your hands on the hood or on the trunk.’ He complied. He was very cooperative.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. United States v. Sanders

3. “Effective withdrawal of a consent to search requires unequivocal conduct, in the form of either an act, statement, or some * combination of the two, that is inconsistent with consent previously given.”

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