Snider v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

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

1. “[Alpplication of [al rule requiring officers to state the correct ground before an arrest is valid would lead to a procedure where officers would be trained to state every possible ground for making an arrest, so that the arrest would be upheld if any one of the grounds was valid. Furthermore, requiring the officer to state the correct ground for arrest would result in the exclusion of evidence in cases where the person who was arrested had not had his rights violated. . In the instant case, the police had reasonable suspicion to stop [the defendant], . and ultimately had sufficient information to arrest him for possession of [illicit drugs]. [The defendant] personally had no interest in whether the police who arrested him were able to correctly articulate the basis for the arrest. The only possible goal which we would accomplish by suppressing the evidence against [the defendant] would be to require police in future cases to more carefully articulate their grounds for arrest,. We are unconvinced that such a ruling would have any positive effect.”

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

2. “trial court should analyze the objective information which the police had at the time when they made an arrest in determining whether there was probable cause to make that arrest”

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

3. “[The test is whether, under the facts known to the police officer, the stop ... was objectively justified.”

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