2003 UT App 101 - State v. Lafond’s Empirical Analysis

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11 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[Shopping an automobile and detaining its occupants constitute a seizure within the meaning of [the Fourth] Amendment ], even [if] the purpose of the stop is limited and the resulting detention quite brief.... However, what the Constitution forbids is not all searches and seizures, but unreasonable searches and seizures. In determining whether the seizure and search were unreasonable, we ask, first, whether the officer’s action was justified at its inception and, second, whether it was reasonably related in scope to the circumstances which justified the interference in the first place.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Cushing · State v. Cushing

2. “[the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Tehero · State v. Adams

3. “[Bjecause nervous behavior ... is consistent with innocent as well as criminal behavior, such conduct can be afforded no weight in determining a detaining officer’s reasonable suspicion of criminal activity. We are likewise reluctant to assign any particular importance to nervous conduct when determining reasonable suspicion in the context of a Terry frisk for weapons, at least ... when the nervousness is unaccompanied by any hostile, threatening, or aggressive behavior.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. State v. Parke