Newhall v. State’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. “the plain view exception is founded on the theory that there can be no reasonable expectation of privacy when contraband is in plain view. It is for this reason that the doctrine allows the warrantless opening of a properly seized container-such as a bottle or a plastic bag-which is transparent and unmistakably reveals its contents to be contraband. No reasonable person could maintain that any vestige of privacy remains in the container.[ 27 ]”

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

2. “'It is possible that in deciding [Reevesl] the supreme court was influenced by the fact that a 'balloon could be one of those rare single-purpose containers which by their very nature cannot support any reasonable expectation of privacy because their contents can be inferred from their outward appearance.”

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

3. “pivotal inquiry must be whether observation of the unopened container amounts to a virtual, if not literal, observation of its contents-an 'equivalent to the plain view of [the contraband] itself”

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