Davis v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

19 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. “Consequently, there must be some further indicia or corroboration from which a police officer may reasonably conclude that the tip is reliable and a detention is justified.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Martinez v. State · In Re ATH

2. “[a]nyone with enough knowledge about a given person to make him the target of a prank, or to harbor a grudge against him, will certainly be able to formulate an anonymous tip hoping to initiate an investigation and perhaps a forcible stop or detention”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. In Re ATH

3. “An officer's prior knowledge, his experience, and his corroboration of the details of a tip may be considered in giving the anonymous tip the weight it deserves.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Martinez v. State