State v. Bulington’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

43 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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “look at the 'totality of the cireumstances' of each case to see whether the detaining officer has a 'particularized and objective basis' for suspecting legal wrongdoing.”

   5 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Sellmer v. State · Barrett v. State

2. “Rather than looking to federal requirements such as warrants and probable cause when evaluating Section 11 claims, we place the burden on the State to show that under the totality of the cireum-stances its intrusion was reasonable.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Duran v. State · George v. State

3. “[We think it likely that we would find reasonable suspicion to exist in each of these circumstances. But none of these cases involved an officer conducting an investigatory stop of a person based solely on information that the person legally purchased a small to moderate amount of one precursor . the respective courts relied on at least one other additional specific and articulable circumstance that, when combined with the purchase of one precursor, produced evidence sufficient to create an inference that the defendant's intention in engaging in the combination of activities was to possess chemical reagents or precursors for the manufacturing of methamphetamine.”

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