State v. Rager’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “It is the requirement of reasonable suspicion which strikes the balance between the government's legitimate interest in traffic safety and an individual's reasonable expectation of privacy. Reasonable suspicion entails some minimum level of objective evidentiary justification. Due weight must be given, not to the officer's inchoate and unparticular-ized suspicion or "hunch" but to the specific reasonable inferences which the officer is entitled to draw from the facts in light of his experience. A court sitting to determine the existence of reasonable suspicion must require the agent to articulate the factors leading to that conclusion.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. SITTS · Erving Sanders v. State of Indiana

2. “Although a law enforcement officer's good faith belief that a person has committed a violation will justify a traffic stop, Ind. Code § 34-28-5-3 , an officer's mistaken belief about what constitutes a violation does not amount to good faith. Such discretion is not constitutionally permissible.”

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

3. “The Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution and Article 1, Section 11 of the Indiana Constitution protect an individual's privacy and possessory interests by prohibiting unreasonable searches and seizures.”

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