State v. Stickle’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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Ma'am, sir, we need you to come with us,”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Felker · Marcus K. Baxter v. State of Indiana

2. “[a)n anonymous tip is not sufficient to permit police to detain a citizen and subject him or her to an investigatory stop absent independent indicia of reliability or officer-observed confirmation of the anonymous informant's prediction of the suspect's future behavior”

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

3. “Because only a small number of people are generally privy to an individual's itinerary, it is reasonable to believe that people with access to such information are likely to also have access to reliable information about the individual's illegal activities.”

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