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3 canonical passages across 2 cases, quoted by 22 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side — they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from People v. JOHNSON (JAMES).

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1 People v. JOHNSON (JAMES) Anchor
ny · 2003
green “while incriminating evidence may be a consequence of an inventory search, it should not be its purpose” 9
2 People v. Galak
ny · 1993
green “an established procedure clearly limiting the conduct of individual officers that assures that the searches are carried out consistently and reasonably” 7
3 People v. JOHNSON (JAMES)
ny · 2003
green “an inventory search is exactly what its name suggests, a search designed to properly catalogue the contents of the item searched” 6

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