State v. Lovato’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
73 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently October 2023 · most notably State v. Flores (1996), State v. Vandenberg (2003)
73 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 · Pennsylvania v. Mimms · Bowsher v. SmithKline Corp. · United States v. Taylor · United States v. Espinosa
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Even in routine traffic stops, police may adopt precautionary measures addressed to reasonable fears. In [Pennsylvania v. Mimms, 434 U.S. 106 , 98 S.Ct. 330 , 54 L.Ed.2d 331 (1977),] the Supreme Court recognized the inordinate risks police take when they approach cars with persons seated in them, and approved the practice of requiring the persons to get out of the car and be subject to a protective frisk even in the absence of individualized suspicion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Lowe“rejects uncontradicted testimony based solely on a determination of credibility, [should] indicate in the record the reasons for [doing so].”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Gonzales“their guns and use reasonable force in effectuating [a] stop without such action automatically constituting an arrest”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Gutierrez
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.