State v. Martin’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “although an officer is not required to eliminate all possible lawful explanations for a person's conduct before arresting the person, it must be more likely than not that the unlawful explanation is the actual explanation.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 291 Or. App. 694 - State v. Goennier

2. “an officer may not stop a person simply because the person's conduct is consistent with criminal conduct; the nature of the conduct matters.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 298 Or. App. 341 - State v. Semore