State v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 district · 60 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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “However, in Terry, the officer who stopped the defendant suspected that he and his cohorts were inspecting a retail establishment for the opportunity to rob it. The officer suspected the defendant individually of being in the process of committing the particular crime of robbery. The officers in this case undoubtedly suspected defendant of being a gang member. Yet, they had only generalized suspicions that a gang member, not specifically defendant, had committed a litany of crimes. Their experience told them that a gang member, at any given time, is possibly engaged in a narcotics or weapons violation, or both. Yet, they had nothing connecting this individual defendant to a particular crime or crimes, except the likelihood that he was a gang member.”

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

2. “make the final leap of faith . . . that [an] inference arising from gang membership and presence in a gang activity area [was] sufficient alone to support reasonable suspicion”

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

3. “[W]e will not dispense with the requirement of individualized, particularized suspicion.”

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