Case: District of Columbia, Petitioner v. R.W.
Comparison published: 2026-04-29
Determination published 92 days before this comparison. The underlying determination is NLI SCOTUS Resolution 0040, published 2026-01-27. Publication dates are timestamped by Substack, not by NLI.
The decisive question
May a court categorically exclude facts known to the officer before assessing reasonable suspicion under the totality of the circumstances?
The controlling dependency
Whether reasonable suspicion is assessed on the whole picture, or only on the facts surviving a prior round of excision.
The defeat condition
Authority permitting the exclusion of known circumstances before totality analysis would have defeated the construction.
How it compared
Full alignment on outcome and substantial alignment on structural diagnosis. The recorded error is mechanical only: the determination anticipated plenary merits treatment, while the Court corrected the analytical method by per curiam reversal.
NLI’s role
Published analysis only. No participation in the case.
Limits of this record
NLI was not counsel, a party, or a participant in this case, and filed nothing in it. This record establishes only that NLI published the stated determination on the stated date and how that determination compared with the decision the Court later reached. It does not establish that NLI influenced the outcome, that NLI’s reasoning was adopted, or that a comparable result should be expected in any other matter.