United States v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

13 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “possesse[d] a reasonable belief based on specific and articulable facts which, taken together with the rational inferences from those facts, reasonably warrant[ed] the officer in believing, that the area swept harbored an individual posing a danger to the officer or others.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. United States v. Freeman

2. “opening the storm door to knock on the inner door, even though the inner door was partially open, was not a Fourth Amendment intrusion because such action does not violate an occupant's reasonable expectation of privacy”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Garrett

3. “whether (1) the officers have an objectively reasonable basis to believe there is an immediate need to protect the lives or safety of themselves or others, and (2) the manner and seope of the search is reasonable.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. People v. Brunsting