State v. Vasquez’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently May 2010 · most notably 124 Wash. 2d 107 - State v. Hudson (1994), State v. Heitzmann (2001)
35 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 · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Warden, Maryland Penitentiary v. Hayden · Michigan v. Long · Sedillo v. United States
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“cases where the patdown is inconclusive ... reaching into the clothing is the only reasonable course of action for the police officer to follow”
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.