State v. Love’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

30 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Finding no one in the living room, he [the father of the female baby-sitter] went into the kitchen area. There he observed the body of Jeffrey Berger lying in a pool of blood on the kitchen floor. Jeffrey’s throat was cut and there were multiple wounds about his head and face. He also observed his daughter lying in a pool of blood on the kitchen floor to the right of Jeffrey Berger. Sheilia’s throat was also cut and, in addition, she had multiple wounds about the head and face, multiple ‘puncture’ wounds in her right side, and bruises on the right thigh.”

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

2. “[2,3] Probable cause to legally justify a warrantless search is virtually incapable of being defined in precise or exact terms. When faced with the necessity of resolving the existence or nonexistence of probable cause to support a warrantless arrest, courts look at the particular facts at hand to see if sufficient information of a reliable or trustworthy nature existed to cause a ‘prudent’ or ‘reasonable’ man to believe that the arrestee committed the offense for which he was arrested, [cites omitted].”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bergel v. Kassebaum