State v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
63 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently June 2021 · most notably State v. Young (2006), State v. Vorburger (2002)
63 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 · Katz v. United States · Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · United States v. Mendenhall · Florida v. Bostick
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[A] person has been 'seized1 within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment only if, in view of all the circumstances surrounding the incident, a reasonable person would have believed that he was not free to leave.'”
6 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Vorburger · State v. Jones“the threatening presence of several officers, the display of a weapon by an officer, some physical touching of the person of the citizen, or the use of language or tone of voice indicating that compliance with the officer's request might be compelled.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Jones · State v. Young“But there are certain 'specifically established and well-delineated' exceptions to the Fourth Amendment's warrant requirement.”
4 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.