189 Md. App. 653 - Stokeling v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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30 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “By the time a strip search would have been earned out, however, the officers had, probable cause to believe the appellant was in possession of drugs on his body based upon the total facts, including the presence of a bag of “something” in his crotch area.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 242 Md. App. 212 - Faith v. State · 196 Md. App. 384 - State v. Harding

2. “'a large bag of something in [the occupant's] crotch area'”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 242 Md. App. 212 - Faith v. State · 196 Md. App. 384 - State v. Harding

3. ““The rule of probable cause is a non-technical conception of a reasonable ground for belief of guilt, requiring less evidence for such belief than would justify conviction but more evidence than that which would arouse a mere suspicion.” Doering v. State, 313 Md. 384, 403 ( 545 A.2d 1281 ] (1988). Probable cause exists where the facts and circumstances within the officer’s knowledge and of which he had reasonably trustworthy information would justify the belief of a reasonable person that a crime has been or is being committed. See Beck v. Ohio, 379 U.S. 89, 91 [ 85 S.Ct. 223 , 13 L.Ed.2d 142 ] (1964); Collins [v. State, 322 Md. 675, 680, 589 A.2d 479 (1991) ]. We have recognized that in dealing with probable cause, we deal with probabilities. “These are not technical; they are the factual and practical considerations of everyday life on which reasonable and prudent men, not legal technicians, act.” Doering, 313 Md. at 403 [ 545 A.2d 1281 ] (quoting Brinegar v. United States, 338 U.S. 160, 175-76 [ 69 S.Ct. 1302 , 93 L.Ed. 1879 ] (1949)).”

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