Hodge v. State’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. “There are generally three manners which an officer may attempt to prevent crime, detect violations, make identifications, or apprehend criminals: (1) Voluntary conversation: An officer is allowed to have a voluntary communication with an individual regardless of what facts are known to the officer because it involves no force and no detention of the individual interviewed; (2) Investigative stop and temporary detention: When an officer stops and temporarily detains an individual it is not an arrest, when reasonable circumstances are present an officer may stop and detain a person to settle an ambiguous situation without having sufficient knowledge to justify an arrest; and (3) Arrest: An officer may make an arrest only when he/she has probable cause. Singletary v. State, 318 So.2d 873, 876 (Miss.1975).”

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

2. “that information was reasonably trustworthy and sufficient to warrant a reasonably prudent person to believe that a crime had been committed.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 947 So. 2d 365 - Qualls v. State

3. “may be most reasonable in light of the facts known to the officer at the time.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 947 So. 2d 365 - Qualls v. State