2005 UT App 464 - State v. Singleton’s Empirical Analysis

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3 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “observation of a hand-to-hand exchange in [a particular trailer park] known for drug trafficking . . . formed a sufficient and independent basis for reasonable suspicion”

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

2. “although he did not know what was occurring when he observed the hand-to-hand actions between [the dle-fendant and [the other person], based on his training and experience as a narcotics officer, this behavior was consistent with an exchange for drugs.”

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

3. “In conducting [a] reasonable suspicion analysis, officers may 'draw on their own experiences and specialized training to make inferences from deductions about the cumulative information available to them that might well elude an untrained person.'”

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