State v. Lafferty’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 federal appellate · 2 district · 76 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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““In our view ... the statute relates to moving from a marked traffic lane to another marked traffic lane. Here, Lafferty did not move from one of the marked eastbound traffic lanes on Highway 90 to the other without checking to be sure she could do so safely. She merely crossed onto and barely over the fog line on the far right side of the right traffic lane in which she was traveling. We conclude that this driving was not ‘illegal’ driving under § 61-8-328.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Phillips, Unpublished Decision (12-4-2006) · Rowe v. State

2. “(1) whether the citizen informant identified herself to the authorities and thus exposed herself to civil and criminal liability if the report is false; (2) whether the report is based upon the citizen informant's personal observations; and (3) whether the officer's own observations corroborated the informant's information.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Elison

3. “(1) objective data from which an experienced police officer can make certain inferences; and (2) a resulting suspicion that the occupant of the vehicle is or has been engaged in wrongdoing or was witness to criminal activity.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Farabee