Swanson v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

18 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The police officer is not entitled to seize and search every person whom he sees on the street or of whom he makes inquiries. Before he places a hand on the person of a citizen in search of anything, he must have constitutionally adequate, reasonable grounds for doing so. In the case of self-protective search for weapons, [the police officer] must be able to point to particular facts from which he reasonably inferred that the individual was armed and dangerous.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. N.W. v. State · NW v. State

2. “[A]n individual stopped may not be frisked or patted down for weapons, unless the officer holds a reasonable belief that the particular individual is armed and dangerous.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. N.W. v. State · NW v. State

3. “not sufficient to cause a reasonable officer to fear for his safety under these circumstances”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. N.W. v. State · NW v. State