State v. Ancona’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

12 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““[The rookie officer] said that she had her gun out, she observed this pile . . . and she said to herself, ‘You know, something’s wrong, it’s taking too long to handcuff these people so—or this person,’ and she holsters her weapon and approaches to put handcuffs on. She took her handcuffs out. She approaches. That’s reasonable conduct. That’s what should have been done. “What happens to her? She’s pulled back by a more seasoned officer. Why? It’s proper to go to the aid of officers who are trying to put someone in custody. Why did [the more seasoned officer] pull her back from doing that? There’s one reason: [because] he knew what was going on. They were assaulting Mr. Wilson on the ground. He didn’t want [the rookie officer] involved in that.””

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

2. ““Some of them were wearing these that night: blue tinted [sunjglasses. A police officer can do no wrong or at least, if he does, they don’t want to see it. They are viewing it through blue tinted glasses. A police officer has a code. Don’t, ask me why, but there’s a code: avoid ratting on a brother officer. And some of them did that that night, either consciously or unconsciously. They didn’t want, to see what was going on behind the truck. The ones that did testified, ‘Well, yeah, there was a struggle and I saw arms but I can’t tell who hit whom or what, happened.’ ””

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

3. ““And if he wasn’t assaulted that night, why did these officers disgrace their badges by filing false reports, by becoming involved in a criminal conspiracy to cover this up? And to have a man who decidedly was not innocent, but [who] was not guilty of assaulting a police officer as they described it, why would they have this innocent man arrested on a charge that he didn’t commit and get the wheels of justice grinding against him if what they did was not criminal that night?””

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