State v. Turner’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

19 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Reasonable and CT Page 13247 articulable suspicion is an objective standard that focuses not on the actual state of mind of the police officer, but on whether a reasonable person, having the information available to and known by the police, would have had that level of suspicion. . . . The police officer's decision . . . must be based on more than a hunch or speculation. . . . In justifying the particular intrusion the police officer must be able to point to specific and articulable facts which, taken together with rational inferences from those facts, reasonably warrant that intrusion.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 2002 Conn. Super. Ct. 13245 - State v. Paradis, No. Cr01 197032 (Oct. 18, 2002)

2. “A court reviewing the legality of a stop must therefore examine the specific information available to the police officer at the time of the initial intrusion and any rational inferences to be derived therefrom.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 2002 Conn. Super. Ct. 13245 - State v. Paradis, No. Cr01 197032 (Oct. 18, 2002)