122 Ohio App. 3d 358 - State v. Shepherd’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
82 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 82 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably 141 Ohio App. 3d 604 - State v. MacKey (2001), State v. Pickett (2017)
82 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 · Illinois v. Gates · Florida v. Royer · Adams v. Williams · Alabama v. White
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 82 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * something more than an inchoate or unparticularized suspicion or hunch, but less than the level of suspicion required for probable cause.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“[i]n the case of a citizeninformant who is victimized or merely witnesses a crime and reports it out of a sense of civic duty, the police may be entitled to presume that the informer is reliable.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“*** {¶19} "In determining whether reasonable suspicion was present, we sacrifice certainty for flexibility and look to the 'totality of the circumstances.' Bobo, supra; State v. Wilks (Sept. 30, 1993), Montgomery App. No. 13654, unreported, 1993 WL 386246 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Cox
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.