State v. Wolfer’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

13 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “When reviewing a district court’s ruling on a motion to suppress, we defer to the district court’s findings of fact and resolve conflicts in testimony in favor of affirmance. We affirm the district court’s decision unless we conclude there is insufficient competent evidence to support the decision, or unless the decision goes against the manifest weight of the evidence.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Zink · City of Dickinson v. Hewson

2. “The officer’s testimony and the video recording of the stop established Wol-fer’s right tires drove outside the marked lane of traffic on a dry and obstruction-free roadway. While the braking vehicles, curving road and parked police vehicle are facts that go towards the practicability of staying entirely within a single lane, the validity of the investigatory stop turned on the officer’s reasonable suspicion a law had been broken, not on “whether the grounds for the stop [would] ultimately result in conviction.” State v. Smith, 452 N.W.2d 86, 88 (N.D.1990).”

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

3. “On a roadway divided into lanes, a vehicle shall be driven as nearly as practicable entirely within a single lane and may not be moved from such lane until the driver has first ascertained that such movement can be made with safety. A violation of this section is a Class 2 misdemeanor.”

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