State v. Clayton’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably 222 Ill. 2d 530 - People v. Luedemann (2006), State v. Garcia-Cantu (2008)
60 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 · California v. Hodari D. · Michigan v. Chesternut · State v. Bullock
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“); State v. Clayton, 309 Mont. 215 , 45 P.3d 30, 35 (2002) (“The police officers did not initiate the stop, but only pulled in behind [the defendant] and shined.the spotlight to determine how many people were in the vehicle. The officers did not have their sirens or emergency lights on and the encounter took place on a public street.”); State v. Calhoun, 101 Or.App. 622 , 792 P.2d 1223, 1225 (1990) (noting that the”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Wagner · Neale v. State“central inquiry under the Fourth Amendment is the reasonableness under all the circumstances of a particular governmental invasion of a citizen's personal security.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Questo“would have believed that he was not free to leave,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Questo
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.