State v. Cook’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

18 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The full search of the arrestee’s person “is not only an exception to the warrant requirement of the Fourth Amendment, but is also a ‘reasonable’ search under the Amendment.” Being reasonable per se, a search incident to arrest, even when the offense is only a minor traffic violation, requires no additional justification.”

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

2. “the trooper’s decision to issue the defendant a citation in lieu of a custodial arrest did not affect the trooper’s right to conduct a search of the same scope as a search incident to arrest because a citation is equivalent to a custodial arrest for authority to search purposes under Iowa Code section 805.1(4).”

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