State v. Dodson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The purpose of a limited search for weapons after an investigative stop is not to discover evidence of a crime, but to allow the officer to pursue his investigation without fear for his safety or the safety of others.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Jackson v. State · State v. Gladney

2. “Although [the officer] acknowledged that he no longer felt threatened by [the defendant] after he had been placed in handcuffs, this is not the critical moment for the search. It was during the initial investigatory stop that cireumstances arose which created a reasonable belief that [the defendant] was armed. It was at that same moment that [the officer's] right to conduct a limited weapons search of the passenger compartment of the vehicle to protect himself and others arose. Accordingly, we hold that the State met its burden of proving that the weapons search of [the defendant's] vehicle was a valid search prompted by reasonable concerns for the safety of [the officer] and others.”

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

3. “In determining whether the police officer acted reasonably under the circumstances, due weight must be given, not to the officer's inchoate and unparticularized suspicions, but to the specific reasonable inferences which the officer is entitled to draw from the facts in light of his experience.”

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