State v. Adams’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently May 2025
7 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 · Florida v. Royer · Melka Marine, Inc. v. United States · United States v. Lambert · State v. Brake
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“loluly when the officer, by means of physical force or show of authority, has in some way restrained the liberty of a citizen”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“An officer may approach a citizen at any time and pose questions so long as the citizen is not detained against his will.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“when a reasonable person, in view of all the cireumstances, would believe he or she is not free to leave.”
1 later decision 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.