State v. Gains’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “An unprovoked abandonment presents independent legal basis for seizure of evidence, without the question of probable cause. Stated another way, when property is truly abandoned, its seizure is beyond the protection of the Fourth Amendment because the individuals right of privacy in the thing has come to an end.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Guidry

2. ““We do not regard the officer’s conduct in the instant case as intrusive. When they neared the [intersection], they did not intrude upon [Bethley’s] freedom of activity or movement. They did not even stop their automobile and alight until after [Bethley] threw down the matchbox.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Littleberry

3. ““To affirm the suppression of evidence in this case would require this court’s holding that [the officers] intruded upon Gaines’ right to privacy by driving in her vicinity on a public street. With that proposition we can not agree.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Littleberry