People v. Chaves’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

10 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Because civil detainees cannot be treated as arrestees, there are two rules for inventory searches. When an inventory search is undertaken pursuant to an arrest, the police officer may completely search all of the arrestee’s belongings, including closed containers like a suspected “bindle.” See [People v.] Inman, 765 P.2d 577 [ (Colo.1988) ]. When such a search is conducted pursuant to protective custody, however, the scope of the officer’s inventory search is limited by the privacy interest of the detainee, and any closed containers must be set aside and a warrant obtained before they may be opened. Dandrea, 736 P.2d at 1218 . Recognition of these separate rules is compelled by the Colorado Alcoholism and Intoxication Treatment Act. The status of the person subjected to the search (ie., whether a person has been arrested or taken into protective custody) determines, within the parameters of reasonableness, how the inventory search may be conducted.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. People v. Carper

2. “is intoxicated or incapacitated by alcohol and clearly dangerous to the health and safety of himself or others. ...”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. People v. Herrera