State v. Dunn’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 federal appellate · 74 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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “A police officer must possess 'objectively reasonable grounds to believe that there is an immediate need for his or her assistance to protect life or prevent serious injury to effect a community-caretaking/emergency-aid stop.'”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Pattin · Columbus v. Cochran

2. “'[C]ourts recognize that a community-caretaking/emergency aid exception to the Fourth Amendment warrant requirement is necessary to allow police to respond to emergency situations where life or limb is in jeopardy.'”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Pattin · Columbus v. Cochran

3. “[t]he community caretaking/emergency-aid exception to the Fourth Amendment warrant requirement allows police officers to stop a person to render aid if they reasonably believe that there is an immediate need for their assistance to protect life or prevent serious injury.”

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