State v. Ashbrook’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently February 2011
9 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 · Michigan v. Long · United States v. Hensley · California v. Carney · 3 Cal. 3d 807 - People v. Superior Court
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he officer need not be absolutely certain that the individual is armed; the issue is whether a reasonably prudent man in the circumstances .would be warranted in the belief that his safety or that of others was in danger.... And in determining whether the officer acted reasonably in such circumstances, due weight must be given, not to his inchoate and unparticularized suspicion or “hunch,” but to the specific reasonable inferences which he is entitled to draw from the facts in light of his experience.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Sleep · State v. Hirning
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.