State v. Lopez’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently October 2023 · most notably State v. Jason L. (2000), State v. Ryon (2005)
40 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 · Dunaway v. New York · Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Delgado
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`a reasonable person would have believed that he [or she] was not free to leave.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“a person is seized within the meaning of the [F]ourth [A]mendment when, in view of all the circumstances surrounding the incident, a reasonable person would have believed he was not free to leave.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Simpson
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.