State v. McGill’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently June 2023 · most notably State v. Williams (2001), State v. Sykes (2005)
2 federal appellate · 50 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 · Adams v. Williams · Sibron v. State of New York Peters · Texas v. Brown · Minnesota v. Dickerson
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“During an investigative stop, an officer is authorized to conduct a [protective] search[ 10 ] of the outer clothing of a person to determine whether the person is armed if the officer is 'able to point to specific and articulable facts which, taken together with rational inferences from those facts, reasonably warrant that intrusion.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“In determining whether a frisk was reasonable, a court may look 'to any fact in the record, as long as it was known to thé officer at the time he conducted the frisk and is otherwise supported by his testimony at the suppression hearing.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Kyles · State v. Sumner“that is, 'whether a reasonably prudent man in the circumstances would be warranted in the belief that his safety and that of others was in danger' because the individual may be armed with a weapon and dangerous.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.