Rodriguez v. Butler’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 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. “"It must be borne in mind that the primary purpose of the constitutional guarantees is to prevent unreasonable invasions of the security of the people in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, and when an officer has reasonable cause to enter a dwelling to make an arrest and as an incident to that arrest is authorized to make a reasonable search, his entry and his search are not unreasonable. * * [N]o basic constitutional guarantees are violated because an officer succeeds in getting to a place where he is entitled to be more quickly than he would, had he complied with [the statute]. Moreover, since the demand and explanation requirements of [the statute] are a codification of the common law, they may reasonably be interpreted as limited by the common law [rule] that compliance is not required if the officer's peril would have been increased * * *. Without the benefit of hindsight and ordinarily on the spur of the moment, the officer must decide [this question] in the first instance."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. State v. Smith

2. “Arguably, the presence of easily disposable contraband without more constitutes a sufficient exigency to justify no-knock entry.”

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