McDonald v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Although it is said that this Court reviews a trial court's denial of a motion to suppress under an abuse of discretion standard, more accurately, the trial court's findings of historical fact are reviewed under the deferential clearly erroneous standard, but its conclusion as to probable cause, or more specifically its application of the law of search and seizure to those historical facts, is considered de novo.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Culver v. State

2. “); United States v. Coplin, 463 F.3d 96, 101 (1st Cir. 2006) (”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. State v. Antonio D. Brown