United States v. Etchin’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

10 federal appellate · 2 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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The sound of someone walking around, for example, or a voice that announces, 'The cops are here,' is not enough by itself. But other sights and sounds-toilets flushing, a door slammed, people running, an obvious lie by the person answering the door, or efforts to remove contraband from the house-may be evidence that there is an emergency that calls for an immediate, warrantless intrusion.”

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

2. “Police who without a warrant knock on the door of a drug house seeking consent to enter take the risk that permission will be withheld and an emergency will not materialize. Where an occupant turns the police away or asks to see a warrant, the officer cannot, without some other suspicious activity, justify a warrantless entry based solely on the fear that evidence might be destroyed.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Goldberg v. Junion

3. “the link between the initial entry and the later-discovered evidence was 'sufficiently attenuated to dissipate the taint' of the illegal search ....”

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