12 Wash. App. 32 - State v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis

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13 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “A momentary intrusion into a person’s privacy for questioning can be justified on grounds which would not constitute probable cause to arrest, but in either instance the burden is upon the State to [justify] the particular intrusion . . . [by pointing] to specific and articulable facts which, taken together with rational inferences from those facts, reasonably warrant that intrusion. (Footnote omitted.) Terry v. Ohio, [ 392 U.S. 1, 21 , 20 L. Ed. 889 , 88 S. Ct. 1868 (1967)]; see also United States v. Nicholas, 448 F.2d 622 (8th Cir. 1971); United States v. Harflinger, 436 F.2d 928 (8th Cir. 1970). The standard governing a court’s consideration of the justification is an objective one; do the facts “ ‘warrant a man of reasonable caution . . .’” to believe “that the action taken was appropriate?” Terry v. Ohio, supra at 22.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 13 Wash. App. 722 - State v. Campbell