824 So. 2d 1124 - State v. Jackson’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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “when the police come upon an individual with such force that, regardless of the individual's attempts to flee or elude the encounter, an actual stop of the individual is virtually certain [to occur].”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Sylvester · 263 So. 3d 457 - State v. Farber

2. “intentionally left respondent with no easy route of escape,”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 839 So. 2d 206 - State v. Wilson · 822 So. 2d 818 - State v. Fairley

3. “Because a police officer possesses the same right as any citizen to approach an individual and ask a few questions ... the police do not seize a person merely by standing approximately 10 feet away and identifying themselves without taking any additional measures to assert their authority over the person that he or she would not expect from the encounter if it had occurred with an ordinary citizen.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 889 So. 2d 1146 - State v. Ellington · 50 So. 3d 884 - State v. Stokes