Shotts v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

18 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[16] Evidence should be suppressed only if it can be said that the law enforcement officer had knowledge, or may properly be charged with knowledge, that the search was unconstitutional under the Fourth Amendment. ... [Suppression is appropriate only where police acts are sufficiently culpable and suppression can meaningfully deter those acts. The good-faith inquiry is confined to the objectively ascertainable question whether a reasonably well trained officer would have known that the search was illegal in light of all of the circumstances.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Nakisha Morris v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.) · Kimberly D. Blankenship v. State of Indiana

2. “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable search or seizure, shall not be violated; and no warrant shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the person or thing to be seized.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. David Wright v. State of Indiana

3. “evidence seized in violation of the Constitution must be excluded at trial unless an exception to this 'exclusionary rule' applies.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Tevin Dejaron Winborn v. State of Indiana