120 Md. App. 610 - Lawson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently October 2015 · most notably State v. Morris (2003), State v. Garcia-Cantu (2008)
36 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 · Florida v. Royer · Ornelas v. United States · United States v. Mendenhall · United States v. Cortez
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In reviewing a circuit court’s grant or denial of a motion to suppress evidence, we ordinarily consider only the evidence contained in the record of the suppression hearing. The factual findings of the suppression court and its conclusions regarding the credibility of testimony are accepted unless clearly erroneous. We review the evidence and the inferences that may be reasonably drawn in the light most favorable to the prevailing party. We undertake our own constitutional appraisal of the record by reviewing the law and applying it to the facts of the present case.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Ordinarily, approaching a parked vehicle to question occupants about their identity and actions is a mere accosting and not a seizure.... But, it is more than a mere accosting when the police attempt to detain a suspect for questioning through the use of police power and the suspect submits. The approach then becomes a seizure and must be justified by a reasonable articulable suspicion that criminal activity is afoot.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Few, if any, reasonable citizens, while parked, would simply drive away and assume that the police, in turning on the emergency flashers, would be communicating something other than for them to remain.”
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.