State v. Hofmann’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “A search incident to lawful arrest is legal even if the arresting officer had an ulterior motive for the arrest or had no independent probable cause to conduct the search. We have adopted an objective or “could” assessment of the arresting officer’s conduct in making the arrest “so long as the officer is legally permitted and objectively authorized to do so, an arrest is constitutional.””

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