State v. Kempa’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 federal appellate · 5 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “A routine traffic stop based on the violation of state traffic laws is a justifiable seizure under the Fourth Amendment. Such a seizure, however, may only last for the time necessary for the officer to conduct a reasonable investigation of the traffic violation. Once the investigation of a traffic stop is concluded, the detainee must be allowed to proceed unless specific, articulable facts create an objectively reasonable suspicion that the individual is involved in criminal activity.”

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