State v. Ebberson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

44 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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Police officers must have a particularized and objective basis for suspecting the person stopped of criminal activity. The assessment of the totality of circumstances includes all of the objective observations and considerations, as well as the suspicion drawn by a trained and experienced police officer by inference and deduction that the individual stopped is or has been or is about to be engaged in criminal behavior. See, Brown v. Texas, 443 U.S. 47 , 99 S. Ct. 2637 , 61 L. Ed. 2d 357 (1979); Delaware v. Prouse, 440 U.S. 648 , 99 S. Ct. 1391 , 59 L. Ed. 2d 660 (1979).””

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Nowicki · State v. Carter

2. “Ordinarily, when an objection to improper evidence is sustained and the jury is instructed to disregard it, such an instruction is deemed sufficient to prevent prejudice.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Jason Bradley McGill v. State