388 Wis. 2d 161 - State v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis

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2 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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “(1) addressing the traffic violation that warranted the stop; (2) conducting ordinary inquiries incident to the stop; and (3) taking negligibly 2Terry involved a highly experienced officer whose particularized observations of two men blatantly”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Courtney C. Brown

2. “all persons stopped for a traffic violation should be required to exit their vehicle and be searched so as to eliminate the profiling that is made necessary by the reasoning of Wright and Floyd.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. State v. Courtney C. Brown

3. “continue, albeit implicitly, the bias that not all people are created equal by authorizing police to pick and choose who they will pull from cars for minor traffic violations.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. State v. Courtney C. Brown