Salmeron v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

75 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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “the dispositive factor in this case is not the nature or subject of the officer’s questioning, but whether that questioning took place during [Johnson’s] otherwise lawful detention____ If a driver is questioned and gives consent while he is being lawfully detained during a traffic stop, there is no Fourth Amendment violation. Harris v. State, 269 Ga. App. 48 ( 603 SE2d 476 ) (2004).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 282 Ga. App. 102 - State v. Johnson

2. “is to enforce the laws of the roadway, and ordinarily to investigate the manner of driving with the intent to issue a citation or warning. Once the purpose of that stop has been fulfilled, the continued detention of the car and the occupants amounts to a second detention.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 294 Ga. App. 128 - Peterson v. State

3. “[a] valid ongoing seizure is not rendered `unreasonable' simply because, during its course, certain unrelated questions, which the detainee is free to decline to answer, are posed to him or her.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 313 Ga. App. 137 - Johnson v. State