Commonwealth v. Ousley’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 federal appellate · 8 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. “Girl Scouts, pollsters, mail carriers, door-to-door salesmen just do not knock on one's door at midnight; and if they do, they are more likely to be met by an enraged (and possibly armed) resident than one with a welcoming smile.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Kelley v. State

2. “just as the police may invade the curtilage without a warrant only to the extent that the public may do so, they may also invade the curtilage only when the public may do so.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Kelley v. State

3. “[albsent an emergency, such as the need to use a phone to dial 911, no reasonable person would expect the public at his door at [that] time{ ]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Kelley v. State