State v. Hansen’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
80 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 81 later decisions — most recently November 2024 · most notably State v. Hamilton (2003), State v. Levin (2006)
80 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 · Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · United States v. Leon · Mapp v. Ohio · Florida v. Royer
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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“' [a]ny further temporary detention' for investigative questioning after fulfilling the original purpose for the traffic stop constitutes an illegal seizure, unless an officer has probable cause to arrest or a reasonable suspicion of a further illegality.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage“If so, we then consider whether the resulting detention was ' "reasonably related in seope to the circumstances that justified the interference in the first place.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A] seizure within the meaning of the [F]ourth [A]mendment does not occur when a police officer merely approaches an individual on the street and questions him, if the person is willing to listen. However, the person approached is not required to answer the officer's questions ....”
5 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.