State v. Rabon’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Even assuming that the police officer had reasonable grounds for an investigatory stop pursuant to La.C.Cr.P. art. 215.1, and that relator’s refusal to remove his hand from his pocket gave the officer an articulable basis for conducting a self protective frisk for weapons ... the officer exceeded the permissible scope of the search authorized by Terry v. Ohio, 392 U.S. 1 , 88 S.Ct. 1868 , 20 L.Ed.2d 889 (1968), when he removed an opaque pill canister from relator’s pocket and | ¿manipulated it physically to determine its contents under circumstances in which he could not have reasonably believed the canister itself was contraband or that it concealed a weapon.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 779 So. 2d 1055 - State v. Brooks