Prestley v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Occupants of a private vehicle are traveling together by choice and thus may be assumed to have some personal or business association with one another. Knowledge or suspicion that one of the occupants has been involved in criminal activity occurring within the car, or involving the car itself, serves as a basis for a reasonable suspicion that the other occupants may be participants in that activity.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. JP v. State · State v. Zaldivar

2. “The fact that officers ordered Prestley out of the vehicle did not transform the investigatory stop into an arrest. The officers were also entitled to place Prestley in handcuffs to the extent reasonably necessary for officer safety, without converting the investigatory stop into an arrest. Such methods used during an investigatory detention must be reasonable in light of the circumstances. We have no basis to gainsay the trial court’s conclusion that they were reasonable.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. G.M., a Child v. State of Florida