State v. Saiz’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

12 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “evidence is admissible when police officers reasonably rely on a warrant that is subsequently invalidated because a judge finds there was an insufficient basis for the issuing magistrate to find probable cause”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. State v. Boll · State v. Belmontes

2. “of an insufficient affidavit ultimately becomes the responsibility of the neutral magistrate: In most such cases, there is no police illegality and thus nothing to deter. It is the magistrate's responsibility to determine whether the officer's allegations establish probable cause and, if so, to issue a warrant comporting in form with the requirements of the Fourth Amendment. In the ordinary case, an officer cannot be expected to question the magistrate's probable-cause determination or his judgment that the form of the warrant is technically sufficient.”

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

3. “[t]his good faith inquiry is limited to the `objectively ascertainable question of whether a reasonable well trained officer would have known that the search was illegal despite the magistrate's authorization'”

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