Chapa v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

35 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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “... The litmus for determining existence of a legitimate expectation of privacy as to a particular accused is twofold: first, did he exhibit by his conduct "an actual (subjective) expectation of privacy;” and second, if he did, was that subjective expectation "one that society is prepared to recognize as ‘reasonable.’ "”

   6 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Bassano · Crosby v. State

2. “[wjhether a particular expectation of privacy is one society is willing to recognize .. is in the nature of a legal rather than a factual inquiry. All that is necessary to be proven as a factual matter is the particular context in which appellant harbored that expectation. It is then left to be resolved as a matter of law whether in the context shown society is willing to sanction that expectation as reasonable or legitimate.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Rovnak v. State · Villarreal v. State

3. “A clearer indicium of society's preparedness to accept as reasonable an expectation of privacy in the passenger compartment of a taxicab could hardly be imagined.”

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