United States v. Laurent’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

10 federal appellate · 10 district · 1 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. “Even if the drugs were found in the car and not on [defendant's] person, the car search was permitted because there was probable cause to suspect drugs would be found there, given that officers had followed the car immediately after a drug transaction involving [defendant] and given [defendant's] tendency in prior transactions to sell crack cocaine out of a stash of multiple bags that he had with him.”

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

2. “A 'spoliation' instruction, allowing an adverse inference, is commonly appropriate in both civil and criminal cases where there is evidence from which a reasonable jury might conclude that evidence favorable to one side was destroyed by the other.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 386 F. Supp. 3d 188 - Rivera v. Sam's Club Humacao

3. “the arrest warrant was unnecessary [so] invalidating it would not change the outcome; the arrest was amply supported by probable cause.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Soukup v. Garvin