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5 canonical passages across 4 cases, quoted by 22 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side: they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from United States v. Terry L. Wood.

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1 United States v. Terry L. Wood Anchor
ca10 · 1997
green “it is certainly not uncommon for most citizens-whether innocent or guilty-to exhibit signs of nervousness when confronted by a law enforcement officer.” 7
2 United States v. Terry L. Wood
ca10 · 1997
green “although the nature of the totality of the circumstances test makes it possible for individually innocuous factors to add up to reasonable suspicion, it is 'impossible for a combination of wholly innocent factors to combine into a suspicious conglomeration unless there are concr…” 5
3 United States v. Shareef
ca10 · 1996
green “reasonably related in scope to the circumstances which justified the interference in the first place.” 4
4 United States v. McRae
ca10 · 1996
green “an objectively reasonable and articulable suspicion that illegal activity has occurred or is occurring” 3
5 United States v. Robert L.
ca9 · 1989
green “of a particular make or model that has been expressly linked to drug trafficking,” 3

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