State v. Quick’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

11 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The issue is what a reasonable person would have thought about the degree of his freedom to ask the officers to leave. It is not about whether it would have been awkward to ask the officers to leave, or whether it would have tended to increase suspicion of guilt by asking them to leave, or whether it might have seemed impractical in some other way. The issue is not even whether it is an intimidating thing to be interviewed by the police. Of course it is intimidating, [ Oregon v. Mathiason , 429 U.S. 492 , 495, 97 S.Ct. 711 , 50 L.Ed.2d 714 (1977) ], but the issue is whether a reasonable person in those circumstances would have believed that he had in fact lost his freedom to insist that the interview was over so he could leave.... The issue, in other words, is whether a reasonable person would have believed that the officers were going to insist on restraining him from [leaving] until they were through.”

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

2. “clearly against the logic of the circumstances and is so arbitrary and unreasonable as to shock the sense of justice and indicate a lack of careful consideration.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Holdeman v. Stratman

3. “If reasonable persons may differ as to the propriety of an action taken by the trial court, then there was no abuse of discretion.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Holdeman v. Stratman