State v. Sumner’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

10 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Our protective search or "frisk" jurisprudence has consistently emphasized that the totality of all circumstances present and known to the officer must be taken into account to assess the legality of the procedure. Naturally, some factors will be of greater import than others in the reasonable suspicion calculus in a particular case.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 334 Wis. 2d 379 - State v. Buchanan

2. “'touchstone of the Fourth Amendment is reasonableness,' " which is "measured in objective terms by examining the totality of the circumstances.”

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

3. “[0]ur cases hold that unusual nervousness is a legitimate factor to consider in evaluating the totality of the circumstances.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. 334 Wis. 2d 379 - State v. Buchanan