State v. Flores’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
134 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 134 later decisions — most recently October 2023 · most notably State v. Vandenberg (2003), State v. Garcia (2005)
134 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 · Wong Sun v. United States · Florida v. Royer · Adams v. Williams · Dunaway v. New York
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 134 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“During an investigatory stop, when an officer reasonably believes the individual may be armed and dangerous, he or she may check for weapons to ensure personal safety. The nature of the crime being investigated may also justify a patdown search. However, the scope of a weapons search under Terry must be limited to its protective purpose. A limited Terry search for weapons may not be expanded without probable cause into a search for evidence of a crime.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Taylor“[o]nce the officers failed to uncover any drugs at the roadside stop, the very rationale for the stop, to verify or quell . . . suspicion was exhausted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Sewell“When a detention exceeds the boundaries of a permissible investigatory stop, it becomes a de facto arrest requiring probable cause.”
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.