United States v. Dismuke’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

31 federal appellate · 1 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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “No operator of a vehicle, after having received a visual or audible signal from a traffic officer, or marked police vehicle, shall knowingly flee or attempt to elude any traffic officer by willful or wanton disregard of such signal so as to interfere with or endanger the operation of the police vehicle, or the traffic officer or other vehicles or pedestrians, nor shall the operator increase the speed of the operator’s vehicle or extinguish the lights of the vehicle in an attempt to elude or flee.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. United States v. Fife

2. “the affidavit is so plainly deficient that any reasonably well-trained officer would have known that his affidavit failed to establish probable cause and that he should not have applied for the warrant.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Edwards v. Jolliff-Blake

3. “considering the circumstances in their totality and giving 'great deference' to the court commissioner who issued the warrant ... [the] affidavit was sufficient to support the probable-cause finding.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 386 Wis. 2d 630 - State v. Cotton