Derichsweiler v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

62 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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “A police officer has reasonable suspicion to detain if he has specific, articulable facts that, combined with rational inferences from' those facts, would lead him to reasonably conclude that the person detained is, has been, or soon will be engaged in criminal activity. This standard is an objective one that disregards the actual subjective intent of the arresting officer and looks, instead, to whether there was an objectively justifiable basis for the detention. It also looks to the totality of the circumstances; those circumstances may all seem innocent enough in isolation, but if they combine to reasonably suggest the imminence of criminal conduct, an investigative detention is justified.”

   6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Texas Department of Public Safety v. Seth Aaron Ardoin · Arguellez v. State

2. “It is enough to satisfy the lesser standard of reasonable suspicion that the information is sufficiently detailed and reliable- i.e. , it supports more than an inarticulate hunch or intuition-to suggest that something of an apparently criminal nature is brewing.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Marcopoulos, Andreas · Herrera v. State

3. “A brief investigative detention constitutes a significantly lesser intrusion upon the privacy and integrity of the person than a full-blown custodial arrest. For this reason, a warrantless investigative detention may be deemed 'reasonable' for Fourth Amendment purposes on the basis of a lesser quantum or quality of information[.]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Marcopoulos, Andreas