United States v. Mann’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

9 federal appellate · 3 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Once those files had been flagged, Detective Huff knew (or should have known) that files in a database of known child pornography images would be outside the scope of the warrant to search for images of women in locker rooms— presumably images that Mann himself had captured .... we hold that Officer Huff exceeded the scope of the warrant by opening the four flagged “KFF Alert” files.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. 901 F. Supp. 2d 1101 - United States v. Schlingloff

2. “the more considered approach 'would be to allow the contours of the plain view doctrine to develop incrementally through the normal course of fact-based adjudication.'”

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

3. “Unlike a physical object that can be immediately identified as responsive to the warrant or not, computer files may be manipulated to hide their true contents.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Swing