State v. Vento’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently August 2025 · most notably In Re South Dakota Microsoft Antitrust Litigation (2005), State v. Ballard (2000)
25 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 · Florida v. Royer · Whren v. United States · Delaware v. Prouse · Pennsylvania v. Mimms
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]e require `a specific and articulable suspicion of a violation.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. DeLaRosa · State v. Wilson“While the stop may not be the product of mere whim, caprice or idle curiosity, it is enough that the stop is based upon “specific and articulable facts which taken together with rational inferences from those facts, reasonably warrant the intrusion.” State v. Herrboldt, 1999 SD 55, ¶ 7 , 593 N.W.2d 805, 808 (quoting Spenner v. City of Sioux Falls, 1998 SD 56, ¶ 14 , 580 N.W.2d 606, 611 ). Under these standards, it is well established that a traffic violation, however minor, creates sufficient cause to stop the driver of a vehicle.” Whren v. United States, 517 U.S. 806, 810 , 116 S.Ct. 1769, 1772 , 135 L.Ed.2d 89 , 95-[96] (1996); State v. Kenyon, 2002 SD 111, ¶ 16 , 651 N.W.2d 269, 274 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Muller“`exercised to an end or purpose not justified by, and clearly against reason and evidence.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Belmontes
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.