2007 UT App 261 - State v. Biggs’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently April 2020
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 Delaware v. Prouse · State v. Dean · State v. Brake · State v. Lopez · State v. Hansen
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.
“A level one encounter occurs when a police officer approaches a citizen and asks questions, but the person is not detained against his will and remains free to leave.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“A level two encounter occurs when a police officer temporarily seizes an individual because the officer has a reasonable, articulable suspicion that the person has committed or is about to commit a crime.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Finally, a level three [encounter] occurs when a police officer has probable cause to believe that a crime has been committed and effects an arrest of the suspect.”
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.