State v. Roberts’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 71 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions — most recently November 2025 · most notably 222 Ill. 2d 530 - People v. Luedemann (2006), State v. Elison (2000)
2 federal appellate · 71 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 · United States v. Mendenhall · United States v. Cortez · Reid v. Georgia · Interstate Production Credit Ass'n v. Desaye
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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“could have merely parked his patrol car on the shoulder in front of 107 Daly Ave.,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Wagner · State v. Clayton“Investigative Stop. In order to obtain or verify an account of the person's presence or conduct or to determine whether to arrest the person, a peace officer may stop any person or vehicle that is observed in circumstances that create a particularized suspicion that the person or occupant of the vehicle has committed, is committing, or is about to commit an offense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Clayton“(1) whether the citizen informant identified herself to the authorities and thus exposed herself to civil and criminal liability if the report is false; (2) whether the report is based upon the citizen informant's personal observations; and (3) whether the officer's own observations corroborated the informant's information.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Elison
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.