Kendall v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The concept of 'open view is used in situations in which a law enforcement officer observes something from an area that is not constitutionally protected, but rather is in a place where the officer is lawfully entitled to be.”

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

2. “may be observed without obtaining a search warrant because such observations do not constitute a search in the constitutional sense. Id. at 449 . However, in order to lawfully seize the item in”

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

3. “[WJhile the knock and talk procedure is not necessarily unlawful, it is a dangerous short-cut around the bedrock requirement that police have probable cause to enter a home.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Brown v. State