State v. Harris’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““[T]he usual traffic stop is more analogous to a so-called “Terry stop” than to a formal arrest. Under the Fourth Amendment, we have held, a policeman who lacks probable cause but whose observations lead him reasonably to suspect that a particular person has committed, is committing, or is about to commit a crime, may detain that person briefly in order to investigate the circumstances that provoke suspicion. The stop and inquiry must be reasonably related in scope to the justification for their initiation. Typically, this means that the officer may ask the detainee a moderate number of questions to determine his identity and to try to obtain information confirming or dispelling the officer’s suspicions.””

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

2. “[A] police officer may briefly detain someone whom the officer believes had committed an infraction”

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

3. “for expecting [the person] to comply with his request.”

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