7 canonical passages across 3 cases, quoted by 306 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 Florida v. JL.
| # | Case | Flag | Canonical passage | Citers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Florida v. JL Anchor | green | “the reasonableness of official suspicion must be measured by what the officers knew before they conducted their search.” | 53 |
| 2 | Florida v. JL | green | “a young black male standing at a particular bus stop and wearing a plaid shirt was carrying a gun.” | 52 |
| 3 | Alabama v. White | green | “reasonable suspicion is a less demanding standard than probable cause not only in the sense that reasonable suspicion can be established with information that is different in quantity or content than that required to establish probable cause, but also in the sense that reasonabl…” | 49 |
| 4 | Prado Navarette v. California | green | “a particularized and objective basis for suspecting the particular person stopped of criminal activity.” | 45 |
| 5 | Florida v. JL | green | “the reasonable suspicion here at issue requires that a tip be reliable in its assertion of illegality, not just in its tendency to identify a determinate person.” | 44 |
| 6 | Alabama v. White | green | “if a tip has a relatively low degree of reliability, more information will be required to establish the requisite quantum of suspicion than would be required if the tip were more reliable.” | 41 |
| 7 | Alabama v. White | green | “when significant aspects of the caller's predictions were verified, there was reason to believe not only that the caller was honest but also that he was well informed, at least well enough to justify the stop.” | 22 |
A red or yellow flag on a member means the underlying case has negative treatment — for those, check the case page before relying on the passage.