United States v. Morin’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

47 federal appellate · 2 district · 15 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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “As defendant stood before a urinal in the otherwise empty restroom Wolsch stepped up to his right side, identified himself as a police officer and stated that he suspected defendant of carrying narcotics. He asked for identification, which Morin supplied and Wolsch kept (emphasis added). Defendant’s airline ticket was also taken at this time. Wolsch was accompanied by three other plain clothes policemen, one of whom was standing on the other side of defendant and two others who were approximately ten to fifteen feet away. Wolsch told defendant that the officers wished to question him and asked him to accompany them to the airport police office. Officer Wolsch next inquired twice whether Morin had any luggage other than the carry-on bag which was next to him. He made this inquiry despite the fact that he knew the answer based on information from the Dallas law enforcement authorities. Defendant denied having any other luggage. He was then briefly frisked and taken to the airport police office, where he was subjected to a body search. Cocaine was found in his checked bag”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Guadalupe v. United States · United States v. Smith

2. “"[e]xcept in the context of border searches, successive stops of an individual based on the same information strongly indicate that an arrest has taken place. The coercion inherent in the successive stop situation must be acknowledged. Otherwise, an intrusion which can be much more severe than an actual arrest will be allowed to take place on the basis of much less justification." Id. at 769 . [8]”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Sery · 488 So. 2d 601 - Zukor v. State

3. “[T]he issue is not abandonment in the strict property sense, but whether the person prejudiced by the search had voluntarily discarded, left behind, or otherwise relinquished his interest in the property in question so that he could no longer retain a reasonable expectation of privacy with regard to it at the time of the search. (Emphasis added.)”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Tankoy v. State · Hawkins v. State