40 Wash. App. 459 - State v. Dorsey’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

16 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[p]robable cause exists where the facts and circumstances within the arresting officer's knowledge and of which he has reasonably trustworthy information are sufficient in themselves to warrant a man of reasonable caution in a belief that an offense has been or is being committed. Probable cause is not a technical inquiry. In any given case it is a set of factual circumstances and practical considerations governing the actions of reasonable and prudent people in their normal, everyday affairs.”

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

2. “Probable cause exists where the facts and circumstances within the arresting officer’s knowledge and of which the officer has reasonably trustworthy information are sufficient to warrant a person of reasonable caution in a belief that an offense has been committed. Probable cause is not a technical inquiry. A bare suspicion of criminal activity, however, will not give an officer probable cause ....”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 77 Wash. App. 687 - State v. Rodriguez-Torres

3. “If, in the course of a permissible Terry stop, the actions of the person being detained give rise to a reasonable suspicion that they [sic] possess evidence which is in danger of being destroyed or lost, then the investigating officers may take reasonable actions consistent with the initial stop to further investigate and to protect the possible evidence.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 55 Wash. App. 569 - State v. Pimintel