State v. Benton’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

15 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Under the fourth amendment to the United States constitution, and under article first, [§§ 7 and 9, of the] Connecticut constitution, a police officer may briefly detain an individual for investigative purposes if the officer has a reasonable and articulable suspicion that the individual has committed or is about to commit a crime.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Davis

2. “a particularized and objective basis for suspecting the particular person stopped of criminal activity”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Davis

3. “[Citation omitted; internal quotation marks omitted.] ).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Davis