State v. Reynolds’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““In Terry v. Ohio (1968), 392 U. S. 1, 22 , the court noted that in the interest of crime prevention and detection ‘ * * * a police officer may in appropriate circumstances and in an appropriate manner approach a person for purposes of investigating possibly criminal behavior even though there is no probable cause to make an arrest.’ ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 40 Ohio App. 2d 224 - State v. Gaines

2. “* * we find it unnecessary to pass on the state’s contention that the search was justified for the purpose of inventorying the contents of the vehicle for safekeeping.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 41 Ohio App. 2d 48 - State v. Bradshaw