State v. Aguilar’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 11 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[T]he statute does not provide any time-of-day limitation for the activities permitted with the use of a temporary demonstration plate. Accordingly, it is legal to allow an overnight test drive of a vehicle, or even a few days’ test driving. There is nothing unreasonable about such a practice. Thus, the facts relied upon by the officer were evidence of neutral conduct — conduct that is permissible under [the statute].”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. United States v. Pena-Montes

2. “A reasonable suspicion must be a particularized suspicion, based on all the circumstances, that the specific individual detained has broken or is breaking the law.”

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

3. “[t]hese circumstances amount to nothing more than a generalized suspicion that there was a possibility that [a d]efendant might have been”

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