State v. Elder’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. “We of course defer to the trial court's findings of the underlying facts, applying a clearly erroneous standard, so long as the findings have adequate evidentiary support. However, we will apply a correction of error standard to the trial court's ultimate legal conclusion,”

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

2. “a third party who possesse[s] common authority over or other sufficient relationship to the premises or effects sought to be inspected.”

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

3. “for the purpose of reversing the trial court” even though it might have done so”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Levitz v. Warrington