State v. Fearheiley’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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[t]hat the encounter had other possible innocent explanations ... did not require the police officer to turn a blind eye to the circumstances and ignore what ... years of experience in narcotics investigations ... had taught him”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 161 So. 3d 103 - State v. Rapp · 116 So. 3d 1004 - State v. Ulmer

2. “[A]lthough the police "may not detain individuals on the basis of an inchoate and unparticularized suspicion or hunch," the reviewing court should "take into account the totality of the circumstances in a process that allows the police to draw on their own experience and specialized training to make inferences from and deductions about the cumulative information available to them that might well elude an untrained person."”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. McMasters · 69 So. 3d 730 - State v. Sander

3. “may not detain individuals on the basis of an inchoate and unparticularized suspicion or hunch,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. McMasters