State v. Pickens’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

18 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. “if police have a reasonable suspicion, grounded in specific and articulable facts, that a person they encounter was involved in or is wanted in connection with a completed felony, then a Terry stop may be made to investigate that suspicion.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 344 Wis. 2d 422 - State v. Rissley

2. “[I]f a... bulletin has been issued on the basis of articulable facts supporting a reasonable suspicion that the wanted person has committed an offense, then reliance on that... bulletin justifies a stop ....”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 344 Wis. 2d 422 - State v. Rissley

3. “by the time police illegally searched the safe, they had enough information to obtain a search warrant for the safe,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 337 Wis. 2d 351 - State v. Avery