People v. Elliott’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “These few concerned courts have fashioned a realistic `public function or acting in the public interest test' which maintains that where organized and structured private security entities or agents assert the power of the state to investigate or make an arrest, or detain persons for subsequent transfer of custody to the state, or subsequent state law enforcement and the state has acquiesced or allowed such use of public power, such private organized action, in contemplation of state involvement, is sufficient to enable a court to apply constitutional restraints[.]”

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

2. “Here, there was, in the opinion of this court, coordinated private-public law enforcement involving the investigation of a crime incident. The parking lot investigation and response here, by the hospital security officer, did accommodate police objectives. It should be contrasted with the traditional role of protecting hospital property or keeping order within the hospital, etc.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 12 Va. App. 827 - Mier v. Commonwealth