Green v. Butler’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

11 federal appellate · 3 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[t]he touchstone of Fourth Amendment inquiry is reasonableness, a standard measured in light of the totality of the circumstances and determined by balancing the degree to which a challenged action intrudes on an individual's privacy and the degree to which the action promotes a legitimate government interest.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 764 F. Supp. 2d 1012 - Simmons v. Catton · 370 F. Supp. 3d 848 - Rodriguez v. City of Chi.

2. “may point to closely analogous cases demonstrating that the conduct is unlawful or demonstrate that the violation is so obvious that a reasonable state actor would know that what he is doing violates the Constitution.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Fort Wayne Community Schools and Jacalyn Butler v. Steffanie Haney, for next friend and minor daughter, M.H.

3. “The reasonableness requirement [of the Fourth Amendment] extends to the manner in which the search is conducted.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Hestekin v. Belay