758 So. 2d 351 - State v. Tassin’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. “The court's decision was based on its belief that it is unfair to penalize the government through application of the exclusionary rule where the police would have obtained the evidence even if no misconduct occurred.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Vigne · State v. Fournette

2. “a search incident to a lawful arrest is authorized for the purpose of protecting the arresting officer and is limited to a search of the person of the defendant and the area within his immediate control. The Zito Court held that the search of the vehicle was not justified because neither Defendant nor her boyfriend posed a threat to the officers at the time of the search, as they were handcuffed in police cars,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 997 So. 2d 718 - State v. Young

3. “because the justification of a search incident to arrest is the assurance of officers' safety, the search must generally be limited to the defendant's person or the area within his immediate control.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 997 So. 2d 718 - State v. Young