State v. Porter’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

18 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[I]f the police initiate an arrest and the passenger compartment of a vehicle is not within an arrestee's area of `immediate control,' Stroud does not apply.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Quinlivan · State v. Wheless

2. “[d]uring the arrest process, including the time immediately subsequent to the suspect's being arrested, handcuffed, and placed in a patrol car, officers should be allowed to search the passenger compartment of a vehicle for weapons or destructible evidence.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Rathbun · State v. Turner

3. “or within close physical proximity to him. And at a distance of at least 40 feet, on the other side of a fence, Rathbun did not have the opportunity to destroy evidence or obtain a weapon from within the truck. Moreover, at the CrR 3.6 hearing, Lieutenant Stowers testified that there was no connection between Rathbun's truck and the warrants for his arrest. Thus, the officers had no legal basis to perform a warrantless search of the truck and the trial court did not err. The State's argument that a defendant may not”

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