People v. Stevens’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently September 2022 · most notably State v. Mitchell (1987), People v. Casias (1977)
4 federal appellate · 45 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 · Stone v. People · People v. Sneed · People v. Stark and Peacock · People v. Lee
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * In order lawfully to detain an individual for questioning, (1) the officer must have a reasonable suspicion that the individual has committed, or is about to commit, a crime; (2) the purpose of the detention must be reasonable; and (3) the character of the detention must be reasonable when considered in light of the purpose.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Montoya · People v. Cruz“It is a cardinal rule of statutory construction that the legislative intent should be ascertained and given effect whenever possible.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““These labels are merely a shorthand way of describing different degrees of intrusions on Fourth Amendment rights of privacy and should not be confused with the underlying analysis in deciding whether the particular intrusion was justified under the circumstances.” 517 P.2d 1336, 1339 . (Citations omitted.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Montoya
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.