Commonwealth v. Stampley’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

33 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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[w]hile a mere hunch is not enough ... it does not take much for a police officer to establish a reasonable basis to justify an exit order or search based on safety concerns, and, if the basis is there, a court will uphold the order.”

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

2. “[t]he justification for an exit order does not depend on the presence of an `immediate threat' at the precise moment of the order, but rather on the safety concerns raised by the entire circumstances of the encounter.”

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