McKay v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ . . . [W]e are of the opinion that the arrest based on information received from the police dispatcher that a burglary had been committed, describing the burglars, the automobile in which they left the scene, and the license number of said automobile, was based on reasonable cause and was therefore a lawful arrest and that the search incident to said arrest was a lawful search.””

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hill v. State · Webster v. State

2. ““[T]he arresting officer had probable cause, based upon reliable information received from the police dispatcher that a burglary had been committed, said broadcast describing the automobile in which they left the burglary scene, together with the tag number of said automobile and the arrest was made within minutes after this information was received by the police and dispatched to the arresting officer.””

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