State v. Cobbs’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
89 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 89 later decisions — most recently February 2021 · most notably State v. Jason L. (2000), State v. Flores (1996)
89 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Adams v. Williams · United States v. Brignoni-Ponce · Ybarra v. Illinois · Angrist v. United States
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 89 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(aln officer who stops a suspect on reasonable suspicion of such an offense may conduct a protective search.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. TYWAYNE H. · N.W. v. State“given the totality of the circumstances, there was an ample measure of reasonable suspicion necessary to justify [the officer's] decision to frisk the defendant. Otherwise, it would be manifestly absurd to require a police officer to await the glint of steel before he can act to protect his safety.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. N.W. v. State · NW v. State“the right to frisk is automatic whenever[ ] the suspect has been stopped upon the suspicion that he has committed, was committing, or was about to commit a type of crime for which the offender would likely be armed{[.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. N.W. v. State · NW v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.