47 Ala. App. 68 - Neal v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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14 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ ‘A search incident to an arrest must have as one or more of its purposes the discovery of (1) the fruits of the crime; (2) instrumentalities used to commit the crime; (3) weapons or like material which put the arresting officer in danger or might facilitate escape; (4) contraband, the possession of which is a crime * * * and, by a recent decision, (5) material which constitutes evidence of the crime or evidence that the person has committed it. * * * Purposes 4 and 5 * * * require probable cause as a predicate for search.’ ””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Daniels v. State · 429 So. 2d 641 - Whitehead v. State