State v. Charles’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Rather, the question is whether all of the officer's actions combine to form a whole greater than the sum of its parts; that is, whether, based on the totality of the circumstances, a reasonable person would believe that the officer had intentionally and significantly deprived defendant of his freedom of movement.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 293 Or. App. 772 - State v. Brown

2. “were we to look at each piece of the encounter between defendant and the officer independently, we would not necessarily conclude that any one piece, standing alone, amounted to a stop.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 293 Or. App. 772 - State v. Brown

3. “the inquiry is not whether each of the officer's actions * * *, examined separately, would convey to a reasonable person”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 293 Or. App. 772 - State v. Brown