10 Neb. Ct. App. 199 - State v. Hookstra’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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

1. “Clearly, an officer may order onlookers whose disruptive behavior poses a threat to the safety of the officer and his suspect to leave the scene of an arrest. See, Seattle v. Abercrombie, 85 Wash. App. 393 , 945 P.2d 1132 (1997) (ability of police officers to restrict public access to crime scene serves significant governmental interest both in facilitating thorough investigation and ensuring safety of everyone at scene); Wilkerson v. State, 556 So. 2d 453, 456 (Fla. App. 1990) (under Florida statute penalizing obstruction of police work “[p]olice officers may lawfully demand that citizens move on and away from the area of a crime without impermissibly infringing upon the citizen’s First Amendment rights”); State v. Manning, 146 N.J. Super. 589, 591 , 370 A.2d 499, 500 (1977) (under New Jersey statute penalizing interference with police work, court found it “perfectly reasonable” for arresting officer to require no distraction from passenger when conducting DUI investigation).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. State v. Sparr