State v. Parker’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

9 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Having legitimately stopped the defendant whom they were just told moments before was selling drugs they saw that his fist is clenched. Common sense dictated that he was holding the merchandise he was selling in the clenched fist. Defendant had no expectation of privacy in his clenched fist under these circumstances. In addition since the clenched fist in all probability held drugs the situation was analogous to the drugs being in the plain view of the officers.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 752 So. 2d 930 - State v. McGee · 734 So. 2d 736 - State v. Dappemont

2. “To hold otherwise would seriously discourage a citizen from reporting an ongoing crime to a policeman.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 652 So. 2d 1086 - State v. Hall