State v. Jennette’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 6 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Nowhere in the order of the trial court is a dispositive certified question stated, nor does the same appear in a written motion to suppress filed by appellees. Instead, at the suppression hearing counsel for appellees stated that there were “several issues” involved in the case including “a whole range of Fourth Amendment questions and Article I, Sec. 7 questions of the Tennessee Constitution....” In the Court of Criminal Appeals and in this Court appellees have sought to raise a large number of questions involving the broad field of search and seizure without any specification or certification from the trial court and without demonstrating how most of these questions could be dispositive of the case. Apparently the State raised no objection to the procedure followed, and the Court of Criminal Appeals accepted the case for review. It resolved most of the questions against appellees, but sustained their position on one issue. The Court of Criminal Appeals then dismissed the charges in their entirety, despite the fact that this single issue could not have been dispositive under the facts and circumstances of the case.”

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