State v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

21 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “allows officers to draw on their own experience and specialized training to make inferences from and deductions about the cumulative information available to them that `might well elude an untrained person.'”

   5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Sylvester · 1 So. 3d 615 - State v. Williams

2. “The assessment by a reviewing court of the cumulative information known to the officers avoids a `divide-and-conquer analysis' by which the whole become less than the sum of its parts because each circumstance examined individually may appear `readily susceptible to an innocent explanation.'”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Sylvester · State v. Cojoe

3. “In reviewing the propriety of an officer’s conduct, courts do not have available empirical studies dealing with inferences drawn from suspicious behavior, and we cannot reasonably demand scientific certainty from judges or law | ^enforcement officers where none -exists. Thus, the determination of reasonable suspicion must be based on commonsense judgments and inferences about human behavior.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. State v. Morgan