568 So. 2d 121 - State v. Loftis’s Empirical Analysis

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7 state decisions

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

1. “According to the Supreme Court in Belton , “... when a policeman has made a lawful custodial arrest of the occupant of an automobile, he may, as a contemporaneous incident of that arrest, search the passenger compartment of that automobile.” Moreover, the officer may examine the contents of containers found within the passenger compartment which are considered to have been within reach of the arrestee. Belton, 101 S.Ct. at 2864 . The Court pointed out that this holding was consistent with the requirement in Chimel v. California, 395 U.S. 752 , 89 S.Ct. 2034 , 23 L.Ed.2d 685 (1969), that the object searched be “within the arrestee’s immediate control.” Belton, 101 S.Ct. at 2865 . Belton established a bright-line test of what is in an automobile occupant’s immediate control: the entire passenger compartment of the automobile. (Emphasis added).”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 171 Md. App. 582 - Purnell v. State · 619 So. 2d 376 - State v. Moore