Perkins v. Henderson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

29 federal appellate · 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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The question whether there has been a consent to a search and seizure is one of fact. Landsdown v. United States, 5 Cir. 1965, 348 F.2d 405 . * * * A simple admonition by the officers that the search could not and would not be conducted without Perkins’ consent would have sufficed.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Schorr v. State

2. ““To be valid, a waiver must be an intelligent relinquishment of a known right or privilege, Johnson v. Zerbst, 1938, 304 U.S. 458 , 58 S.Ct. 1019 , 82 L.Ed. 1461 . A waiver cannot be valid unless the person knows that his permission may be freely and effectively withheld.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. United States v. Colbert