State v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
1 district · 214 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 215 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably State v. Elders (2007), State v. Tucker (1994)
1 district · 214 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 · Florida v. Royer · United States v. Mendenhall · United States v. Cortez · Adams v. Williams
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 215 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“based upon an objective observation that the person stopped has been or is about to engage in criminal wrongdoing. The”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] seizure cannot -we emphasize cannot -be justified merely by a police officer's subjective hunch.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Bard · State v. Valentine“merely approaching an individual on the street or in another public place, by asking him if he is willing to answer some questions, by putting questions to him if he is willing to listen, or by offering as evidence in a criminal prosecution his voluntary answers to such questions.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.