State v. Izzo’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 district · 14 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “An officer may conduct a warrantless search of a vehicle or a container “when the officers’ personal knowledge of facts and circumstances in combination with any reasonably trustworthy information conveyed to them would warrant a prudent person to believe that the [vehicle or] container seized holds either contraband or evidence of a crime.” The record discloses that when first approaching [defendant’s] vehicle the officer immediately observed signs that [defendant] was intoxicated and that the vehicle contained alcoholic beverages. Having established probable cause to believe that [defendant] was driving under the influence of intoxicating liquor, the officer was justified in asking [defendant] and his passenger to step out of the vehicle in order to facilitate the officer’s search of the vehicle for evidence of that crime.”

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

2. “Even though the obligation of the court under Rule 41A to provide findings of fact and conclusions of law is absolute rather than conditional, the party responsible for an adequate record, the appellant, has the burden to request the court to make findings if none are made, or to expand on inadequate findings in order for the record to be meaningful for appellate review.”

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