State v. Vandenberg’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

22 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[Vandenberg] and Swanson’s behavior— watching Officer Roberts in the rearview mirror, drumming fingers on the roof of the car, speaking to each other, rolling the windows of the car up and down, glancing back at Officer Roberts, and general fidgeting — during the second stop came nowhere near the panicked and aggressive behavior observed by the officer in Chapman.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. State v. Vandenberg

2. “A police officer may stop a vehicle if he has an objectively reasonable suspicion that the motorist has violated a traffic law.”

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