State v. Caldwell’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
July 2014
most recently cited
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Florida v. Royer · United States v. Mendenhall · Dunaway v. New York · United States v. Place
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he police must have a sufficiently detailed description of the person to be able to identify that person as the suspect named by the informant. Without such a requirement, police could theoretically conduct wide-ranging seizures on the basis of vague general descriptions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“must balance the State's interest in effective law enforcement against the individual's right to be free from unwarranted and/or overbearing police intrusions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.