Patterson v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

9 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Indiana has a substantial interest under the Fourth Amendment in promoting the use of DNA testing, not only in creating a database, but also in conducting criminal investigations and exonerating the innocent. Although the State intruded upon [the defendant's] privacy by analyzing his blood for DNA evidence, his privacy was outweighed by [the] State's interest in protecting the citizens of Indiana by promoting DNA analysis in criminal investigations. Under the facts of this case, the subsequent testing of [the defendant's} DNA was reasonable under the Fourth Amendment.”

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

2. “exception to the Fourth Amendment warrant requirement; and (2) Patterson had a reasonable expectation of privacy in his blood sample given on December 6, 1997 because he was not required to provide a blood sample to the DNA Databank until after the second set of tests, and society is prepared to recognize an expectation of privacy in blood samples lawfully collected by police. ' 1. The”

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

3. “To determine whether a person has a reasonable expectation of privacy, we employ a two-part test: (1) "we ask whether the individual, by his conduct, has exhibited an actual expectation of privacy;" and (2) "we inquire whether the individual's expectation of privacy is 'one that society is prepared to recognize as reasonable.""”

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