People v. Velez’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

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. “The court properly declined to suppress evidence, finding that the police legally stopped the defendant. A review of the record demonstrates that the police had reasonable suspicion for stopping the defendant on the street, and that this reasonable suspicion escalated to probable cause prior to his arrest. 7”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 941 F. Supp. 300 - Velez v. People of the State of New York