State v. DeBooy’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

17 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “A. To promote a safe public environment for all persons using the state highways. B. To inspect compliance with seat belt and child restraint requirements. o To determine if drivers are impaired. D. To detect minors having in their possession alcohol or controlled substances. E. To conduct exterior examination of vehicles for the required lights, turn sig nals, and other exterior required safety devices. F. To conduct routine level three inspections of commercial vehicles over 26,-001 pounds GVW. G. To inspect the validity of license plates, registration certificates, proof of insurance and driver licenses.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. State v. Abell

2. “constitutional limitations on the number of `checks' that a checkpoint plan may require.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. State v. Abell