612 So. 2d 1052 - State v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"The facts and circumstances observed by this police officer ... could lead to only one logical conclusion. Defendant was selling crack cocaine on the corner to passersby from the matchbox in his pocket as happens continuously on street corners in areas of New Orleans well known to police officers for drug trafficking. Common sense told the officers the defendant was selling drugs just as common sense dictated the conclusion that the officers had probable cause to arrest him."”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 672 So. 2d 986 - State v. Stevens · 642 So. 2d 255 - State v. Young

2. “C.Cr.P. art. 213 authorizes a policeman to arrest a person who has committed an offense in his presence. The search of a defendant is legal if there is probable cause of [sic] his arrest. Probable cause exists when the facts and circumstances known to the officers and of which they have reasonably trustworthy information are sufficient .to justify the belief by a man of ordinary caution that the suspect has committed or is committing a crime.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 811 So. 2d 84 - State v. Daniel