113 Conn. App. 250 - State v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis

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17 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Pursuant to Terry v. Ohio , [supra, 392 U.S. 1 [ 88 S.Ct. 1868 ] ], a police officer has the authority, under the fourth amendment to the United States constitution, to stop the operator of a car if the officer has a reasonable and articulable suspicion that the operator has engaged in illegal conduct. In furtherance of this constitutional principle, our Supreme Court has held that a police officer has the right to conduct a Terry stop even if the reason for the stop is only that the officer observed an infraction under our traffic laws....”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 170 Conn. App. 269 - State v. Brito

2. “An appeal challenging the factual basis of a court's decision that a reasonable and articulable suspicion exists requires that we determine, in light of the record taken as a whole, (1) whether the underlying factual findings of the trial court are clearly erroneous; and (2) whether the [court's] conclusion that those facts gave rise to such a suspicion is legally correct.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 170 Conn. App. 269 - State v. Brito