Topic: a citizen is in need of help or is in peril. · Go Syfert
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2 canonical passages across 2 cases, quoted by 6 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 State v. Lovegren.

#Case FlagCanonical passage Citers
1 State v. Lovegren Anchor
mont · 2002
green “a citizen is in need of help or is in peril.” 3
2 Brunette v. State
mont · 2016
green “assured that the citizen is not in peril or is no longer in need of assistance or that the peril has been mitigated, then any actions beyond that constitute a seizure which must be justified by something other than the community caretaker doctrine, such as particularized suspici…” 3

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