State v. Patterson’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently February 2021 · most notably State v. Funderburg (2008), State v. Williams (2006)
38 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 · Maryland v. Dyson · State v. Gomez · State v. Jason L.
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Fourth Amendment is violated when an officer detains an individual with no more than a generalized suspicion, or unarticulated hunch or suspicion, because the government’s interest in crime prevention will not outweigh the intrusion into the individual’s privacy. The detention must also be reasonably related to the circumstances that initially justified the stop, and the scope of the investigation may expand only when the officer has reasonable and articulable suspicion of other criminal activity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Rivas“In [Williamson ], the officer had detained the defendant for a traffic violation and became suspicious about possible impairment. This Court held that the defendant driver’s possible impairment combined with the discovery of drugs on the passenger supported individualized suspicion sufficient to detain the defendant further for investigation into the possibility of the defendant’s possession of drugs.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Rivas“investigatory detentions [must] be supported by reasonable suspicion of criminal activity”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Soto
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.