State v. Swanson’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently August 2023 · most notably Rowe v. State (2001), State v. Lopez (1994)
2 federal appellate · 30 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 Florida v. Jimeno · United States v. Espinosa · United States v. Garcia · State v. Perez · State v. Carter
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[r]egardless of the officer's underlying motives, a stop is not invalid if there exists a valid, objective reason to make the stop. We have held that a violation of the traffic laws provides a sufficient objective ground to stop a vehicle.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Taylor v. State
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.