State v. Storey’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “there was probable cause to search the entire place articulated in the warrant, [so] it was not necessary for the magistrate to take into account who else was living there when he authorized the place to be searched.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In re Austin B.

2. “[s]earch warrants are not directed at persons; they authorize the search of places and the seizure of things, and as a constitutional matter they need not even name the person from whom the things will be seized.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In re Austin B.

3. “[O]ur ultimate inquiry asks whether the magistrate made a 'practical, common-sense determination' that 'there is a fair probability that contraband or evidence of a crime will be found in a particular place .'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In re Austin B.