State v. Sylvester’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

23 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[T]he proposition that police officers can approach individuals as to whom they have no reasonable suspicion and ask them potentially incriminating questions ... is by no means novel; it has been endorsed by the Court any number of times.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 884 So. 2d 1176 - State v. Long · 263 So. 3d 457 - State v. Farber

2. “for suspecting legal wrongdoing. This process 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”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 890 So. 2d 616 - State v. Collins

3. “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].”

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