State v. Betz’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

29 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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “An examination of Supreme Court jurisprudence reveals a decidedly broad definition of when law enforcement officers have the authority to engage in a war-rantless search: Probable cause exists where “the facts and circumstances within their (the officers’) knowledge and of which they had reasonably trustworthy information [are] sufficient in themselves to warrant a man of reasonable caution in the belief that” an offense has been or is being committed.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. STATE OF FLORIDA v. EMMET ZACHERY · Harris v. State

2. “`[T]o a trained and experienced police officer, the smell of cannabis emanating from a person or a vehicle gives the police officer probable cause to search the person or the vehicle.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 967 So. 2d 941 - State v. Williams

3. “previously burnt marijuana certainly warranted a belief that an offense had been committed”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 920 So. 2d 1175 - State v. Rabb