State v. Donohoe’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

11 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““A motion to suppress under § 542.296 presents the issue of the admissibility in a criminal proceeding of evidence seized by police action, and so is collateral to the question of guilt or innocence of the defendant, which is tried independently. State v. Yowell, 513 S.W.2d 397, 402 [1,2] (Mo. banc 1974). It is for that reason that on appellate review — although further evidence on the issue is not foreclosed — the transcript of the proceedings on the motion is the essential determinant of the validity of the trial court disposition of the issue of admissibility.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Scott · State v. Kiesau

2. “In fact, it was clear that the officer did not know what he was looking for. He found no weapon, and turned his search to drugs: `at the time I didn't know exactly what I was wanting to search for. I knew something was wrong. I felt like there was possibly a contraband... Although, I admit, had I found drugs, that would have been contraband, which is what I was looking for ...' The only articulable fact shown by the officer as an objective basis for his suspicion and search was Donohoe's extreme nervousness. That solitary circumstance simply does not suffice for the intrusion into a motor vehicle for a search, either for weapons or drugs....”

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

3. “The legality of a search ... “must be judged by the objective facts known to the seizing officers[.]” ... An investigatory search for weapons is valid where “the detaining officers has a particularized and objective basis for suspecting the particular person stopped of criminal activity.” ... United States v. Cortez, 449 U.S. 411, 417 , 101 S.Ct. 690, 694 , 66 L.Ed.2d 621 (1981).”

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