United States v. Jeter’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 federal appellate · 2 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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Despite the lack of clarity on the matter of provoked flight, we can certainly extrapolate some guiding principles. Fraud, for example, would surely suggest wrongdoing on the part of the officers and thus make a finding of provocation more likely. If police officers put a defendant in reasonable fear of physical harm, that might also qualify as provocation.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. United States v. Lucas

2. “The district court correctly found that Jeter's flight, in combination with the grabbing of his pocket in a 'high crime area,' provides the inference of suspicious behavior that justifies a Terry stop under Wardlow .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Davis

3. “[C]laims of substantive and procedural reasonableness overlap in that they both concern whether the district court properly considered certain § 3553(a) factors.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. United States v. Barnes