Gronski v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

21 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “'The search and/or seizure of an automobile upon probable cause is one of the recognized exceptions [to the warrant requirement].... [T]his court [has] recognized that differences exist between motor vehicles and other property, which permit warrantless searches of automobiles in circumstances in which warrantless searches would not be reasonable in other contexts.!”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Vassar v. State · Borgwardt v. State

2. “assertion, unaccompanied by authority or argument, is insufficient to persuade us to consider whether the Wyoming Constitution's Art. 1, § 4 should be independently interpreted as offering greater protection than its federal counterpart.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Mogard v. City of Laramie

3. “The seope of a warrantless search of an automobile 'is defined by the object of the search and the places in which there is probable cause to believe that it may be found'”

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