State v. Chatton’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 352 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 366 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably 93 Ohio App. 3d 586 - State v. Retherford (1994), 111 Ohio App. 3d 142 - State v. Medcalf (1996)
8 federal appellate · 352 state decisions — followed in 18 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 · Delaware v. Prouse · New York v. Belton · Michigan v. Long · United States v. Place
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 366 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]here a police officer stops a motor vehicle which displays neither front nor rear license plates, but upon approaching the stopped vehicle observes a temporary tag which is visible through the rear windshield, the driver of the vehicle may not be detained further to determine the validity of his driver's license absent some specific and articulable facts that the detention was reasonable.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“akin to the random detentions struck down by the Supreme Court in Delaware v. Prouse .”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“officer, having detained [defendant] for a suspected traffic violation, continued to ... detain [defendant] for the purpose of determining the validity of [defendant’s] driver’s license once the officer no longer had reason to suspect that [defendant] was committing any traffic violation”). . Cf. United States v. Lopez, 443 F.3d 1280, 1285-86 (10th Cir.2006) (five-minute detention to check for warrant unreasonable where officer lacked reasonable suspicion for stop) ; Royer, 460 U.S. at 498 , 103 S.Ct. 1319 (an individual”
2 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.