People v. Perez’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “from the inception of his encounter with the police, defendant's conduct was consistent with his constitutional right to avoid contact ** with the police”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. People v. Perez

2. “detention and frisk of defendant by grabbing his wrists, pulling up his sleeves, and removing a weapon from his body was not justified”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. People v. Perez

3. “Can you hold the door, police, hold the door?”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. People v. Perez