705 So. 2d 1242 - State v. Blue’s Empirical Analysis

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11 state decisions

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

1. “area that, without those exceptional circumstances, would be unlawful. Examples of exigent circumstances have been found to be escape of the defendant, avoidance of a possible violent confrontation that could cause injury to the officers and the public, and the destruction of evidence. State v. Hathaway, 411 So.2d 1074, 1079 (La.1982). See also State v. Blue, 97-2699 (La.App. 4 Cir. 1/7/98) , 705 So.2d 1242 [4] ; State v. Tate, 623 So.2d 908 (La.App. 4 Cir.1993). [5]”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Pounds · 733 So. 2d 1282 - State v. Brown

2. “Probable cause to arrest exists when the facts and circumstances known to the officer and of which he has reasonably trustworthy information are sufficient to justify a man of ordinary caution in believing the person to be arrested has committed a crime.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 733 So. 2d 1282 - State v. Brown · 726 So. 2d 994 - State v. Watkins

3. “In State v. Hathaway, 411 So.2d 1074 (La.1982), officers received a tip that a known drug user would be delivering drugs to a residence in a certain block and that he would be armed. The officers set up a surveillance of the block and saw the user talking to another known drug user and to the defendant, who was unknown to the officers. The officers decided to detain the men, and when they announced their presence and told the men to "freeze", the other known drug user and the defendant ran inside one of the residences in the block. The officers chased them and entered the residence, where they found the defendant with a gun and the other man trying to flush a syringe. On review of the defendant's conviction, the Court found the tip, combined with the officers' observations and their knowledge of two of the men, gave them reasonable suspicion to stop the group. The flight of one of the known users gave them probable cause to believe he was involved in drug activity, and their belief he entered the house to dispose of evidence gave them exigent circumstances to follow and enter the house. Likewise, in State v. Killian, 95-826 (La.App. 3rd Cir.5/8/96), 677 So.2d 487 [writ den. 96-1461 (La.11/8/96), 683 So.2d 266 ], the officers received a tip that marijuana was being sold from a certain residence. The C.I. then conducted a controlled purchase from the residence and informed the officers that although the seller still had a quantity of marijuana in the residence, he was planning ”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 733 So. 2d 1282 - State v. Brown