Brumley v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “If noise inside the home of an arrestee provides reasonable suspicion for a protective sweep, then there would conceivably be reason to sweep almost every house where there is more than one member of the household. Buie requires something more. Many, if not most homes in Kentucky, harbor multiple occupants — including pets. Our analysis requires facts reasonably demonstrating that Brumley’s home harbored not just an additional individual, but rather an “individual posing a danger to those on the arrest scene.” Buie, 494 U.S. at 334 , 110 S.Ct. 1093 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Carter v. Commonwealth

2. “[w]e recognize[d] that the transmission of collective knowledge between investigating and arresting officers is crucial to the success of law enforcement.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Commonwealth v. Smith

3. “The absence of information cannot be an articulable basis for a protective sweep that requires information to justify it in the first place.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. McCall