Jacques v. Sears, Roebuck & Co.’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 federal appellate · 6 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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Though not spelled out in section 218 of the General Business Law, the merchant’s defense for reasonable detention extends, as a matter of implementing the policy of the statute if not as a matter of logical necessity, to the turning over of the suspect to the police under reasonable circumstances and the execution of an information or complaint necessary for his initial arraignment.” 334 N.Y.S.2d at 640 , 285 N.E.2d at 876 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. SuperX Drugs of Kentucky, Inc. v. Rice

2. ““A command to stop, which is obeyed, is, of course, an arrest; but much depends on what follows, in order to constitute one entailing the responsibilities of criminal or civil false imprisonment, — as every mere command to stop may not be, nor intended to be, nor understood to be, a real ‘arrest’ in law or fact. Arrest includes the keeping under restraint of one so ‘detained’ until brought before the magistrate.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Posr v. New York City Police Officer Doherty

3. “An “arrest” is the detaining of a person, the obtaining of the actual physical control and custody of him and retaining it against his will and without his consent under some real or assumed authority.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Posr v. Doherty