State v. Eric K. Manning’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

19 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[i]f, during the course of an investigative stop, an officer gathers additional information providing reasonable suspicion that some other criminal activity is afoot, the officer may extend the detention to investigate that activity.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Gregory W. Zullo v. State of Vermont · State v. Nichole L. Dubaniewicz

2. “In determining the legality of a stop, courts do not attempt to divine the arresting officer's actual subjective motivation for making the stop; rather, they consider from an objective standpoint whether, given all of the circumstances, the officer had a reasonable and articulable suspicion of wrongdoing.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Gregory W. Zullo v. State of Vermont

3. “none of these factors viewed in isolation could form the basis for reasonable suspicion, ... [l]ooking at the circumstances as a whole, particularly through the lens of the [sergeant]'s experience in law enforcement,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Nichole L. Dubaniewicz