Hall v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

14 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “An accurate description of a subject's readily observable location and appearance is of course reliable in this limited sense: It will help the police correctly identify the person whom the tipster means to accuse. Such a tip, however, does not show that the tipster has knowledge of concealed criminal activity. The reasonable suspicion here at issue requires that a tip be reliable in its assertion of illegality, not just in its tendency to identify a determinate person.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Martinez v. State · In re A.T.H.

2. “[w]hile the indicia used as corroboration needed not be per se criminal, they must still be sufficient to permit one to reasonably deduce that appellant engaged in the misconduct for which he was accused by the tipster.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In Re ATH

3. “Consequently, there must be some further indicia or corroboration from which a police officer may reasonably conclude that the tip is reliable and a detention is justified.”

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