State v. McKenzie’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

13 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution and Article I, Section 5 of our Maine Constitution do require that the officer’s objective observations, coupled with any relevant information he may have, together with the rational inferences and deductions he may draw and make from the totality of the circumstances, be sufficient to “reasonably warrant suspicion of criminal conduct” on the part of the party or parties subjected to the investigatory stop or detention, criminal conduct which has taken place, is occurring, or imminently will occur.”

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

2. “To justify an investigatory stop of a moving automobile, deemed in law a temporary seizure of the vehicle, the officer must be able to point to specific and articulable facts which, taken together with rational inferences from those facts, reasonably warrant suspicion of criminal conduct on the part of the occupants.”

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

3. “The informant, while undoubtedly reliable, conveyed to the officer only her conclusion that something was suspicious. [The officer] was not justified in resting his suspicions on the unsupported “hunch” of an informant.”

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