State v. Lamb’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently October 2025 · most notably State v. Sprague (2003), United States v. Wheat (2001)
2 federal appellate · 40 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 · Adams v. Williams · Alabama v. White · United States v. Harris · 83 Ill. 2d 430 - People v. Smithers
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Considered in the light of [the cited] authorities, the circumstances here were more than sufficient to justify the stop. These circumstances included not only the trooper's rapid verification of the information supplied by the informant, but also the virtual impossibility that such information could have been supplied by anyone but a knowledgeable insider, the officer's personal knowledge of defendant's prior DUI arrest, and the potential danger to himself as well as to others posed by an intoxicated driver.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Cunningham“defendant was upset and intoxicated and was driving away from a residence on ... a dirt road ... in a rural area.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Cunningham“`[a]n informant's tip, if it carries enough indicia of reliability, may justify a forcible stop.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Cunningham
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.