State v. Brake’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
84 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 85 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably State v. Levin (2006), State v. Worwood (2007)
84 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 · Michigan v. Long · United States v. Place · Pennsylvania v. Mimms · Maryland v. Wilson
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 85 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We abandon the standard which extended 'some deference' to the application of law to the underlying factual findings in search and seizure cases in favor of non-deferential review.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage“On certiorari, we review the decision of the court of appeals and not that of the district court.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“[I]t is settled law that `a police officer may detain and question an individual when the officer has reasonable, articulable suspicion that the person has been, is, or is about to be engaged in criminal activity.'”
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.