Ford v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 federal appellate · 209 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 211 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “An operator shall, if following another vehicle, maintain an assured clear distance between the two vehicles so that, considering the speed of the vehicles, traffic, and the conditions of the highway, the operator can safely stop without colliding with the preceding vehicle or veering into another vehicle, object, or person on or near the highway.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Clark · Myers v. State

2. “Reasonable suspicion exists if the officer has specific, articulable facts that, when combined with rational inferences from those facts, would lead him to reasonably conclude that a particular person actually is, has been, or soon will be engaged in criminal activity.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Brithe Thompson v. State · Martinez v. State

3. “[m]ere opinions [of police officers] are ineffective substitutes for specific, articulable facts”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Arguellez v. State · Castro v. State