State v. Romero’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 18 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. “The fact that the suspects are apparently cooperative need not lessen an officer’s reasonable belief that the suspects are dangerous or undermine the appropriateness of an officer’s actions____ Nor does the fact that an investigating officer may have the person “under his control” diminish the vulnerability of the officer in such situations when the individual still could bolt and retrieve any weapon(s) in the vehicle.”

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