State v. Sprague’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
86 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 86 later decisions — most recently July 2023 · most notably State v. Therrien, Jr. (2011), State v. Lawrence (2003)
86 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 Wong Sun v. United States · Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Florida v. Royer · United States v. Mendenhall · United States v. Cortez
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 86 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the objective facts and circumstances would support a reasonable suspicion that the safety of the officer, or of others, was at risk or that a crime has been committed.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“a rule requiring a minimal level of objective justification . . . strikes the proper balance . . . between the need to ensure the officer's safety and the constitutional imperative of requiring individualized, accountable decisionmaking for every governmental intrusion upon personal liberties.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“police intrusion [must] proceed no further than necessary to effectuate the purpose of the stop.”
2 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.