106 Ohio App. 3d 741 - State v. Taylor’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
258 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 258 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably State v. Jones (2010), 122 Ohio App. 3d 358 - State v. Shepherd (1997)
258 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. Sokolow · Florida v. Bostick
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 258 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Encounters are consensual where the police merely approach a person in a public place, engage the person in conversation, request information, and the person is free not to answer and walk away.”
35 later decisions quote this exact passage“Reasonable suspicion entails a minimum level of objective justification for making a stop. (Internal citation omitted). It entails more than an inchoate or unparticularized suspicion or `hunch,' but less than the level of suspicion required for probable cause. * * * In making a determination of reasonable suspicion, the relevant inquiry is not whether particular conduct is innocent or guilty, but the degree of suspicion that attaches to particular types of noncriminal acts.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a]n investigative stop does not violate the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution if the police have reasonable suspicion that 'the person stopped is, or is about to be, engaged in criminal activity.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Westover
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.