State v. Werner’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently March 2020
19 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Katz v. United States · Carroll v. United States · Chambers v. Maroney · United States v. Ross · United States v. Chadwick
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Although we applied the federal rule in determining the validity of the search in this case, we are compelled to point out that we would have held the search to be valid even under the rules stated in State v. Benoit. This court has held that '[t]he need to protect or preserve life or avoid serious injury’ constitutes an exigent circumstance that justifies what would otherwise be an illegal search. State v. Gonsalves, 553 A.2d 1073, 1075 (R.I.1989) (quoting State v. Jennings, 461 A.2d 361, 366 (R.I.1983)). In the case at hand, when the officers came upon the automobile, they had probable cause to believe that the automobile might contain a dangerous weapon or evidence leading to the whereabouts of the perpetrator of a violent crime. The officers also had reason to believe that the immediate apprehension of this perpetrator might be necessary in order to prevent further violence. Thus, at the time of the search, a substantial element of exigency existed.” Werner, 615 A.2d at 1014 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Werner“[a]s long as the police have probable cause to believe that an automobile * * * holds contraband or evidence of a crime, then police may conduct a warrantless search of the vehicle * * * even if the vehicle has lost its mobility and is in police custody.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“eyewitnesses at the scene of the shooting [who] supplied officers with a detailed description of the assailant's car[.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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