State v. Davis’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. ““... the Louisiana Constitution only protects against unreasonable invasions of privacy. The basic test for determining whether a person’s constitutional right to privacy has been violated is 1) whether there was a reasonable expectation of privacy and 2) whether society |24⅛ ready to accept that expectation of privacy as reasonable.” (citation omitted). In State v. Hussey, 469 So.2d 346 (La. App. 2d Cir.1985), two passengers were placed in the backseat of a police car to be driven to the police station because they and the driver were too intoxicated to move their vehicle off of the highway. A hidden tape recorder recorded their conversation during which they discussed stolen items that were in the vehicle they were driving. Based on the tape recording, the passengers were arrested and charged. The appellate court upheld denying the defendants’ motion to suppress the tape recording because the defendants did not have a reasonable expectation of privacy while in the rear seat of the police car. Davis had less of an expectation of privacy. He was not just a passenger in a police care, but had been placed under arrest and given his Miranda rights. Once arrested, the police car became Davis’s temporary jail in which he had no reasonable expectation of privacy.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 62 So. 3d 229 - State v. Green