19 Ariz. App. 84 - State v. Ruiz’s Empirical Analysis

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26 state decisions

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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. ““ . . . However, as held by the-United States Supreme Court in Terry, supra, not every seizure of the person, without probable cause constitutes a violation of that person’s Fourth Amendment rights. Only those seizures which are ‘unreasonable’ are proscribed, and Terry recognizes the necessity of police field interrogation procedures ‘where a police officer observes unusual conduct which leads him reasonably to conclude-in light of his experience that criminal activity may be afoot. . . . ’ ( 392 U.S. at 30 , 88 S.Ct. at 1884 ). “In matters concerning field interrogations conducted without the prerequisite-‘probable cause’ necessary for a lawful arrest, the central inquiry is ‘the reasonableness in all the circumstances of the-particular governmental invasion of a citizen’s personal security.’ Terry further defines this ‘reasonableness in all the circumstances’ test by stating that the court’s ‘inquiry is a dual one — whether the officer’s action was justified at its • inception, and whether it was reasonably related in scope to the circumstances which justified the interference in the first place. . . . And in making-that assessment it is imperative that the-facts be judged against an objective standard: would the facts available to • the officer at the moment of the seizure or the search “warrant a man of reasonable caution in the belief” that the action taken was appropriate?’ ( 392 U.S. at 19-21 , 88 S.Ct. at 1878-1880 ). “Applying the Terry dual approach test, the eviden”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Dean · 19 Ariz. App. 505 - State v. Rhodes

2. ““Only those seizures which are ‘unreasonable’ are proscribed, and Terry recognizes the necessity of police field interrogation procedures ‘where a police officer observes unusual conduct which leads him reasonably to conclude in light of his experience that criminal activity may be afoot. . . . ’ ( 392 U.S. at 30 , 88 S.Ct. at 1884 ).” 19 Ariz. App. at 86 , 504 P.2d at 1309 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 22 Ariz. App. 167 - State v. Salcido