People v. Patterson’s Empirical Analysis

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

1. “The legislative history of CPL 160.50 does not at all support an intent on the part of the Legislature to create a constitutionally derived right____ Indeed, the over-all scheme of the enactment demonstrates that the legislative objective was to remove any ‘stigma’ flowing from an accusation of criminal conduct terminated in favor of the accused, thereby affording protection ... to such accused in the pursuit of employment, education, professional licensing and insurance opportunities.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 26 F. Supp. 2d 433 - Pritzker v. City of Hudson

2. “Defendant does not allege that the identification procedure was conducted under impermissible circumstances; he argues only that the use of the challenged photograph was improper and requires suppression. Moreover, he makes no claim that the taking of the photograph originally was in any way illegal. Thus, he does not challenge the reliability of the identification process, as indeed he could not inasmuch as the reliability of that process was unaffected by the use of the photograph.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 764 F. Supp. 2d 545 - Martin v. Conway

3. “is unrelated to any Fourth or Fifth Amendment protections”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Braun v. City of N.Y.