United States v. Edwards’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Nevertheless, we find its reasoning instructive on the danger of assuming that legal conduct standing alone suggests the actor is also inclined to engage in criminal conduct.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. United States v. Scanzani · State v. Robert Norman

2. “(1) when the issuing magistrate was misled by an affidavit containing false information or information that the affiant would have known was false if not for his reckless disregard of the truth; (2) when the issuing magistrate wholly abandon[s her] judicial role; (3) when the affidavit in support of the warrant is so lacking in indicia of probable cause as to render official belief in its existence entirely unreasonable; and (4) when a warrant is so facially deficient that the executing officer could not reasonably believe it was valid.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. United States v. Knox

3. “of the buttocks or genitals. RSA 649-A:2, III. Viewing the affidavit in a common-sense manner and considering the totality of the circumstances set forth therein, we conclude that the magistrate did not have a substantial basis for finding that there was a fair probability that child sexual abuse images would be found on the defendant's electronic devices. In this case, the images that the officers viewed on the defendant's laptop were of adult women”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. State v. Robert Norman