Vasquez v. Lewis’s Empirical Analysis

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1 district · 1 state decisions

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

1. “It is wholly improper to assume that an individual is more likely to be engaged in criminal conduct because of his state of residence, and thus any fact that would inculpate every resident of a state cannot support reasonable suspicion. Accordingly, it is time to abandon the pretense that state citizenship is a permissible basis upon which to justify the detention and search of out-of-state motorists, and time to stop the practice of detention of motorists for nothing more than an out-of-state license plate. ... Absent a demonstrated extraordinary circumstance, the continued use of state residency as a justification for the fact of or continuation of a stop is impermissible.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. United States v. Esteban

2. “We have repeatedly held that nervousness is of limited significance in determining reasonable suspicion and that the government's repetitive reliance on ... nervousness ... as a basis for reasonable suspicion ... must be treated with caution.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. United States v. Esteban

3. “[T]hat the defendant was traveling from a drug source city-or a drug source state-does little to add to the overall calculus of suspicion.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. United States v. Salemi-Nicoloso