Hrezo v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

22 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[w]hen a police officer turns on his or her emergency and takedown lights under these circumstances, a reasonable person would expect to be stopped, at a minimum, for a traffic infraction and perhaps for the crime of fleeing and eluding if he or she drove away. See § 316.126, Fla. Stat. (1999); State v. McCune, 772 So.2d 596 (Fla. 5th DCA 2000). Accordingly, the use of such lights is typically regarded as an act that initiates an investigatory stop. See Brooks v. State, 745 So.2d 1113, 1113-14 (Fla. 1st DCA 1999).”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. G.M. v. State · 981 So. 2d 529 - GM v. State

2. “reasonable person would not feel free to leave.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. JC v. State · 975 So. 2d 488 - Rios v. State

3. “We emphasize that an officer's use of a spotlight is not the same as the use of emergency lights. See State v. Wimbush, 668 So. 2d 280 (Fla. 2d DCA 1996) (reversing suppression where officers pulled along side parked car and illuminated interior of car with a spotlight, seeing cocaine on driver's and passenger's faces; initial encounter held consensual, not stop).”

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