People v. Tanner’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “To the extent that a trial court's ruling on a motion to suppress involves an interpretation of the law or the application of a constitutional standard to uncontested facts, our review is de novo.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 324 Mich. App. 416 - People of Michigan v. Laricca Seminta Mathews

2. “The primary objective in interpreting a constitutional provision is to determine the text's original meaning to the ratifiers, the people, at the time of ratification.”

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

3. “people are understood to have accepted the words employed in a constitutional provision in the sense most obvious to the common understanding.”

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