State v. Cardwell’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. “the act of providing an information technology professional access to one's data for the sole purposes of preserving that data and restoring the computer's functionality does not constitute exposing the data to 'the public.'”

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

2. “[o]nce the sexually suggestive still image of the child in a bra appeared, no warrant was required to open and view this video file containing that very image.”

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

3. “[h]aving seen the still image ..., both Chief Douglas and Investigator Hanna clearly had probable cause to obtain a search warrant to open the video file.”

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