39 Kan. App. 2d 839 - State v. McCaddon’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
June 2010
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Cady v. Dombrowski · Wright v. Kansas Water Office · State v. Ackward · In re L.A.
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.
“Public safety stops fall under the police's community caretaking function, which expands beyond the police's role in investigating crime. Public safety stops are justified by the mobility of the automobile and the danger to the public. In analyzing the validity of a stop, the risks to the public that would occur if an immediate stop is not conducted must be weighed against the right of an individual to be free from such stops.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[A] civil or criminal infraction is not always essential to justify a vehicle stop. Safety reasons alone may justify the stop, if the safety reasons are based upon specific and articulable facts....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[W]here the danger to the public is clear, urgent, and immediate, the equation must be weighted in favor of protecting the public and removing the danger.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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