State v. Burkett’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

15 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The 911 caller in this case reported more than a minor traffic infraction and more than a conclusory allegation of drunk or reckless driving. Instead, she alleged a specific and dangerous result of the driver’s conduct: running another car off the highway. That conduct bears too great a resemblance to paradigmatic manifestations of drunk driving to be dismissed as an isolated example of recklessness.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. State v. Walter

2. “Reasonable suspicion to stop must be based on specific and articulable facts which taken together with rational inferences from those facts, reasonably warrant the intrusion.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. State v. Bowers

3. “The Fourth Amendment's prohibition against unreasonable searches and seizures applies when a car is stopped by law enforcement.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. State v. Bowers