State v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

30 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “A law-enforcement officer who personally observes a traffic violation while outside the officer's statutory territorial jurisdiction has probable cause to make a traffic stop; the stop is not unreasonable under the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Paolucci · State v. Wilson

2. “removed any room for finding that a violation of a state statute, such as R.C. 2935.03, in and of itself, could give rise to a Fourth Amendment violation and result in the suppression of evidence.”

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

3. “a balancing test for determining when to impose a suitable sanction for a law-enforcement officer's violation of the territorial limits on arrest powers.”

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