Scriber v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 district · 12 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “If a police officer gives a visual or audible signal to stop and the police officer, whether or not in uniform, is in a vehicle appropriately marked as an official police vehicle, a driver of a vehicle may not attempt to elude the police by ... [w]illfully failing to stop the driver's vehicle.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 350 F. Supp. 3d 366 - Stutzman v. Krenik

2. “If a police officer gives a visual or audible signal to stop and the police officer is in uniform, prominently displaying the police officer's badge or other insignia of office, a driver of a vehicle may not attempt to elude the police officer by ... [f]leeing on foot[.]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 238 Md. App. 87 - Thornton v. State

3. “The cardinal rule of statutory construction is to ascertain and effectuate the intent of the Legislature.... [W]e look first to the language of the statute, giving it its natural and ordinary meaning[.]”

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