Dowler v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

9 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “An accurate description of a subject's readily observable location and appearance is of course reliable in this limited sense: It will help the police correctly identify the person whom the tipster means to accuse. Such a tip, however, does not show that the tipster has knowledge of concealed criminal activity. The reasonable suspicion here at issue requires that a tip be reliable in its assertion of illegality, not just in its tendency to identify a determinate person.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. In re A.T.H. · In Re ATH

2. “must have additional facts before the officer may reasonably conclude that the tip is reliable and an investigatory detention is justified.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In Re ATH

3. “even innocent acts can give rise to reasonable suspicion under the proper circumstances”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In Re ATH