State v. Lelevier’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently December 2022 · most notably State v. Dawson (1990), State v. Bejarano (2008)
27 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. Wilson · State v. Hocker
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““a reasonable suspicion * * * that ‘some activity out of the ordinary’ is or had occurred, some suggestion to connect the detained person with the unusual activity, and some indication that the activity is related to crime, (citation omitted)” State v. Hooker, 113 Ariz. 450, 457 , 556 P.2d 784, 791 (1976).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Little · State v. Woods“[a]n order granting a motion to suppress the use of evidence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““[A] police officer may in appropriate circumstances and in an appropriate manner approach a person for purposes of investigating possibly criminal behavior even though there is no probable cause to make an arrest.” 392 U.S. at 22 , 88 S.Ct. at 1880 , 20 L.Ed.2d at 906-07 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Woods
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.