United States v. Wood’s Empirical Analysis
106 F.3d 942 · 1997
Citation profile
89 federal appellate · 43 district · 82 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 266 later decisions — most recently August 2022 · most notably Ferris v. State (1999), Cartnail v. State (2000)
89 federal appellate · 43 district · 82 state decisions — followed in 20 states
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 · Wong Sun v. United States · Florida v. Royer · United States v. Cortez · United States v. Sokolow
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 266 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[clommon sense and ordinary human experience are to be employed, and deference is to be accorded a law enforcement officer's ability to distinguish between innocent and suspicious actions.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sutton v. State · Leyva v. State“It is certainly not uncommon for most citizens-whether innocent or guilty-to exhibit signs of nervousness when confronted by a law enforcement officer.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Finger v. State · STATE v. MORGAN“[r]eliance on the mantra 'the totality of the circumstances' cannot metamorphose these facts into reasonable suspicion.”
8 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.