93 Md. App. 373 - State v. Darden’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

17 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““there was neither evidence that Darden fit the drug courier profile nor was the issue of the existence, vel non, of reasonable articulable suspicion based on such a profile. The nervousness exhibited by Darden and the fact that he was en route from a source city and that he misspelled his name did not provide sufficient grounds for the police officers’ investigatory stop. We hold, therefore, that the police did not have a reasonable articulable suspicion that the appellant was engaged in any criminal wrongdoing.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 193 Md. App. 582 - King v. State

2. “The courts, in deciding whether a reasonable articulable suspicion exists, do not focus on singular isolated facts but upon the totality of the circumstances. We cannot engage in piecemeal refutation of each individual factor as being consistent with innocence. It is the entire mosaic that counts, not single tiles.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 142 Md. App. 604 - Bryant v. State

3. “appeared nervous and began 'shaking' and 'sweating profusely' " when approached by officers; initially stated that he did not have a train ticket, "but then produced one when reminded by the officers that he needed a ticket to ride the train; and when asked his name, misspelled his last name”

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