Walter v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

74 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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[A] police officer's subjective motive will never invalidate objectively justifiable behavior under the Fourth Amendment.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Garcia

2. “almost total deference to a trial court's determination of historical facts”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Wolf v. State

3. “an objectively valid stop [that was made] for an allegedly improper reason,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Singleton v. State