State v. Affsprung’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently August 2023 · most notably State v. Rankin (2004), State v. Patterson (2006)
50 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 United States v. Mendenhall · Florida v. Bostick · Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Delgado · State v. Jason L. · State v. Mendez
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Aln ordinary vehicle stop for a traffic violation ... in which the officer requests both the driver's and the passenger's identification in connection with the violation and [based on] nothing more than a generalized concern about officer safety is a seizure within the Fourth Amendment as to the passenger whose identification is obtained.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Bowles“this generalized [officer safety] concern, without more, is [in]sufficient to override reasonable Fourth Amendment privacy considerations of passengers.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Martinez“we do not believe that a reasonable passenger would feel free to leave the area and refuse the officer's request for identification”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Rankin
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.