State v. Blair’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 federal appellate · 78 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 82 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““[a]fter the interrogation, the officer requested that her palm print be compared with that taken from the crime scene. “On February 8,1982, upon learning that defendant’s print matched the print found at the scene of the crime, police sought and received an arrest warrant on the homicide. * * * During an interrogation that began at 6:15 p.m., officers confronted her with evidence of the matching prints and obtained inculpatory statements.” Id. at 260 .”

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

2. “[U]pon review of a trial court's order, the facts, and reasonable inferences arising therefrom, are to be stated favorably to the order challenged on appeal.... [T]he reviewing court is free to disregard contrary evidence and inferences, and is to affirm the trial court's ruling on a motion to suppress if the evidence is sufficient to sustain its finding.”

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

3. ““On January 23, Detective Lauffer requested that defendant be picked up for homicide but did not ask for a homicide arrest or search warrant because he believed there was not enough evidence to support a warrant. The police then learned that she was the subject of an outstanding city warrant for a traffic violation.” Id. at 260 .”

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