State v. Jackson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

15 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Defendants also argue that the April 1994 forced break-in incident and the prior criminal conviction of defendant Smith constitute stale and irrelevant information, which should not have been considered by the magistrate in making his probable cause determination. We largely agree with defendants in this respect. However, we are persuaded that the magistrate would have found probable cause even ab sent any information about the April 1994 incident and Smith's prior conviction. Thus, defendants' staleness argument, even if well-taken, is not dispositive.”

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

2. “[sluch a task lies more appropriately with the Utah Supreme Court as 'the ultimate and final arbiter of the meaning of the provisions in the Utah Declaration of Rights and the primary protector of individual liberties'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. 2012 UT App 168 - State v. Little

3. “the drafters of article I, section 14 were sensitive to the more specific and intrusive practice of nighttime raids by law enforcement officials, rather than to law enforcement's basic search and seizure power,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 2012 UT App 168 - State v. Little