Moody v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The Initial Stop To justify even a temporary detention, the officer must have specific articulable facts which, in light of his experience and personal knowledge, together with inferences from those facts, would reasonably warrant the intrusion on the freedom of the individual stopped for further investigation.... The officer must have a reasonable suspicion that some activity out of the ordinary is occurring or has occurred, information that tends to connect the detained person with the unusual activity, and some indication that the activity is related to a crime.”

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

2. “[t]he only information possessed by the [arresting] officers was that the vehicle was listed as “suspicious” in some robberies. There is no indication of when or where these robberies occurred, no information connecting ... the Appellant to these robberies, and no information on which to base a reasonable belief that the automobile or its occupants were at this time, or at any time in the past, involved in any criminal activities or in possession of any contraband or fruits of any crime.”

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