93 Md. App. 134 - Thanner v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The thrust of Foster and Sedacca is that, if there is a valid, basis for making a stop, including observation of a legitimate traffic violation, the fact that the officer made the stop in the hope of obtaining evidence of some other crime does not make the stop unlawful. ... [S]o long as police do no more than they are objectively authorized and legally permitted to do, their motives in doing so are irrelevant and hence not subject to inquiry.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 132 Md. App. 510 - Wilson v. State

2. “an arrest may not be used as a pretext to search for evidence. Additionally, this Court has stated that when an arresting officer has two or more purposes for making an arrest, one of which is to make a valid arrest for the commission of the crime and the other of which is to obtain evidence of a different crime, the duality of purpose will not, in an of itself, transform the arrest into a pretext arrest”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 132 Md. App. 510 - Wilson v. State