United States v. Soderstrand’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

9 federal appellate · 5 district · 7 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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"The task of the issuing magistrate is simply to make a practical, commonsense decision whether, given all the circumstances set forth in the affidavit before him, including the `veracity' and `basis of knowledge' of persons supplying hearsay information there is a fair probability that contraband or evidence of a crime will be found in a particular place. And the duty of reviewing courts is simply to ensure that the magistrate had a `substantial basis for ... conclud[ing]' that probable cause existed."”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. United States v. Knox · 920 So. 2d 1175 - State v. Rabb

2. “mere nudity is not sufficient to constitute child pornography; rather, the nudity must be depicted in a lascivious manner in order to be criminal.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. U.S. v. Isabella · United States v. Isabella