State v. Dawson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Neither the fourth amendment nor the Hawai'i Constitution 'require a policeman who lacks the precise level of information necessary for probable cause to arrest to simply shrug his shoulders and allow a crime to occur or a criminal to escape. On the contrary, ... it may be the essence of good police work to adopt an intermediate response.' " (internal quotation marks omitted) ). Visintin next argues that, "even if the initial stop was constitutionally justified, the immediate demand for identification was not [,]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Visintin

2. “police may temporarily seize or detain an individual to investigate possible criminal behavior based on reasonable suspicion, even if there is no probable cause for an arrest. To justify an investigative detention under the reasonable suspicion standard, the police officer must be able to point to specific and articulable facts which, taken together with rational inferences from those facts, reasonably warrant that intrusion.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Visintin

3. “person is seized, for purposes of article I, section 7 of the Hawai'i Constitution, when a police officer approaches that person for the express or implied purpose of investigating him or her for possible criminal violations and begins to ask for information.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Tominiko