State v. Reynolds’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 107 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 108 later decisions — most recently August 2023 · most notably State Ex Rel. Clark v. Johnson (1995), State v. Flores (1996)
1 federal appellate · 107 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 · Katz v. United States · Delaware v. Prouse · United States v. Brignoni-Ponce · Alderman v. United States
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 108 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If a driver invites the attention of a police officer by engaging in unsafe driving conduct, or whenever an officer is reasonably called upon to make contact with a driver, the officer has the right to know with whom he is talking and may check to see that the driver is both licensed and driving a car that is registered and insured.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]hen a vehicle is lawfully stopped ... an officer may reasonably detain the vehicle and its passengers for the purpose of asking for identification, registration, and/or proof of insurance.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.