State v. Duncan’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The trial court erred in overruling [Appellant’s] motion to suppress and in allowing the State to introduce testimony regarding the weapons found during the illegal search of [Appellant’s] purse on September 12, 1997, in violation of [her] right to be free from illegal searches, guaranteed by the 4th and 14th Amendments to the United States Constitution and Article I, Section 15 of the Missouri Constitution, in that Officers Murphy and [Toby] had no authority to open and search [Appellant’s] closed purse because they did not have a warrant, [Appellant] had a reasonable expectation of privacy in her closed purse and she had not abandoned it, there was no immediate danger to the officers and no exigent circumstances to justify the search. Rather, the search was conducted to find evidence of a crime, which does not justify the violation of [Appellant’s] privacy interest in her purse.””

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