27 Or. App. 455 - State v. Denny’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 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. “"Where, however, the police know that a crime of serious gravity has just been committed and that quick tactical reaction is necessary to apprehend the offender, then factors which would be of marginal significance in a general investigation take on heightened importance. The question is no longer whether there is reasonable suspicion that a crime has been committed but rather whether there is a reasonable possibility that the person under observation is connected with the crime which the police believe to have been committed."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 54 Or. App. 309 - State v. Ott

2. “* * * Where * * * the officer knows that a crime has been committed, a stop will be justified on the basis of fewer articulable facts than those required where the officer is making a general inquiry into the possibility that a crime might have been committed. * * *”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 55 Or. App. 503 - State v. Henry