234 Md. App. 653 - Barrett v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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10 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[A] police officer with probable cause to believe that a suspect has or is committing a crime may arrest the suspect without a warrant. See Brinegar v. United States, 338 U.S. 160 , 176, 69 S.Ct. 1302 , 93 L.Ed. 1879 (1949).... Once lawfully arrested, police may search "the person of the arrestee" as well as "the area within the control of the arrestee" to remove any weapons or evidence that could be concealed or destroyed. United States v. Robinson , 414 U.S. 218 , 224, 94 S.Ct. 467 , 38 L.Ed.2d 427 (1973).”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 237 Md. App. 661 - Lewis v. State · 239 Md. App. 495 - Spell v. State

2. “exists where the facts and circumstances within the knowledge of the officer at the time of the arrest, or of which the officer has reasonably trustworthy information, are sufficient to warrant a prudent person in believing that the suspect had committed or was committing a criminal offense.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 237 Md. App. 661 - Lewis v. State · 239 Md. App. 495 - Spell v. State

3. “essentially contemporaneous with the arrest”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 236 Md. App. 456 - Carter v. State · 237 Md. App. 661 - Lewis v. State