State v. Ferrante’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

22 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “When a police officer's objective justification to continue detention of a person stopped for a traffic violation for the purpose of searching the person's vehicle is not related to the purpose of the original stop, and when that continued detention is not based on any articulable facts giving rise to a suspicion of some illegal activity justifying an extension of the detention, the continued detention to conduct a search constitutes an illegal seizure.”

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

2. “'[t]he transition between detention and a consensual exchange can be so seamless that the untrained eye may not notice that it has occurred. The undetectability of that transition may be used by police officers to coerce citizens into answering questions that they need not answer, or to allow a search of a vehicle that they are not legally obligated to allow.'”

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

3. “subsequent or simultaneous request to search [a] defendant's vehicle constituted an unlawful continued detention/seizure of [the] defendant, unless [the officer] possessed a reasonable suspicion that [the] defendant was engaged in some additional criminal activity”

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