Wheaton v. Hagan’s Empirical Analysis

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9 federal appellate · 1 district · 11 state decisions

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

1. “`efforts to bomb courthouses threatens to undermine the rule of law ... the dangers posed by [unruly actions at a concert] are substantially less than those which justified suspending the warrant requirement in courthouse ... searches'”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 98 Wash. 2d 668 - Jacobsen v. City of Seattle · State v. O'CONNOR

2. “Without seeking to define exactly what type of policy will pass constitutional muster, in part because that cannot be determined until the method by which the policy is actually put into practice is known, there are several alternatives readily apparent. All parcels, bundles, and pocketbooks over a certain size could be banned from the Coliseum grounds, with appropriate notices to that effect placed on tickets and signs. Some form of check rooms as those used by museums and other large public buildings could be provided for parcels and other objects, with a fee charged that would cover the cost of operation of such facilities. If random searches are still deemed necessary after other efforts have failed, they would be less objectionable if genuinely voluntary consent could be established. This might be achieved by having officers at the turnstiles dressed in civilian clothes and by notifying patrons that they must either take their parcels, pocketbooks, or whatever is causing the bulges in their pockets out to their cars or else be subject to a search.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 767 So. 2d 470 - State v. Iaccarino