State v. Frank’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “conclude[d] that the cases holding that a driver's consent to search a motor vehicle does not extend to property owned by passengers who are present and available to consent to the search of their property are more consistent with constitutional limits on warrantless searches than the cases that conclude otherwise.”

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

2. “[W]hen a vehicle search is based only on consent, an officer has an obligation to ascertain the ownership of items not owned by or within the control of the consenter when the circumstances do not clearly indicate that the consenter is the owner or controls the item to be searched.”

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

3. “no factual basis for a finding of apparent authority of the driver to consent to the search of [the passenger's] suitease.”

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