State v. Gulick’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably 38 Cal. 4th 1129 - People v. Saunders (2006), 2001 OK CR 33 - McGaughey v. State (2001)
24 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 · Delaware v. Prouse · Thompson v. Keohane · United States v. Viegas
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]fter an officer stops a vehicle, he may request verification of the operator's right to drive, even when the original reason for a stop has disappeared, or evaporated, before the request is made.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“every contact between police and a citizen implicates the Fourth Amendment right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures; an officer may approach a citizen and engage in a consensual conversation without effecting a detention for purposes of the Fourth Amendment, and thus need not have an articulable suspicion before engaging in that conversation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Cunneen“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Lafond
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.