State v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
95 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 95 later decisions — most recently December 2011 · most notably State v. Lund (1990), State v. Arthur (1997)
95 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 · United States v. Cortez · Adams v. Williams · Sibron v. State of New York Peters · Pennsylvania v. Mimms
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 95 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]n determining whether the officer acted reasonably in such circumstances, due weight must be given, not to his inchoate and unparticularized suspicion or `hunch,' but to the specific reasonable inferences which he is entitled to draw from the facts in light of his experience.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Lund · State v. Valentine“[n]othing in Terry can be understood to allow a generalized `cursory search for weapons' or, indeed, any search whatever for anything but weapons.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the right to frisk must be immediate and automatic if the reason for the stop is, as here, an articulable suspicion of a crime of violence.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Lund · State v. Valentine
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.