State v. Groth’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
2
states following
June 1992
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Michigan v. Long · Camara v. Municipal Court of City and County of San Francisco · United States v. Wolfenbarger · United States v. Craig
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]f some overt threat or threatening act is a prerequisite, it would place the police in an untenable position; an officer might well be dead of a gunshot wound inflicted by the seemingly innocuous, even friendly appearing, and apparently cooperative person before him. . . . An officer is not required to experience trembling fear or an overt threat as a prerequisite to reasonable action which protects his safety.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“An officer is not required to experience trembling fear or an overt threat as a prerequisite to reasonable action which protects his safety.”
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.