Damato v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 67 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably United States v. Massenburg (2011), O'BOYLE v. State (2005)
1 federal appellate · 67 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 · Illinois v. Gates · Brinegar v. United States · Ornelas v. United States · Whren v. United States
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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“even though the purpose of the stop is limited and the resulting detention quite brief.”
26 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'objectively reasonable and articulable suspicion' that criminal activity has occurred or is occurring.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Harris v. State · Dimino v. State“[clommon sense and ordinary human experience are to be employed, and deference is to be accorded a law enforcement officer's ability to distinguish between innocent and suspicious actions.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Brown v. State · Sutton v. State
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.