State v. Oxley’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 federal appellate · 2 district · 28 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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Certainly it is clear beyond question that the ‘reasonable belief required for arrest is not to be determined by what the arresting officer did or did not believe, but rather by whether the available facts would ‘warrant a man of reasonable caution in the belief’ that the person arrested had committed an offense. This being so, how can it seriously be contended that the requirement of ‘reasonable suspicion’ grants police carte blanche to detain ‘on a purely subjective reaction’? *** This test, as is the case with the legal standard for arrest, is purely objective and thus there is no requirement that an actual suspicion by the officer be shown.” (Emphasis in original.) W. La-Fave, Search & Seizure §9.3(a), at 424-25 (2d ed. 1987).”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Hoffman, 9-08-02 (5-12-2008) · 167 Ill. App. 3d 638 - People v. Houlihan