State v. McMaster’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
14
cited by 14 later decisions
1
states following
September 2025
most recently cited
12 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · United States v. Cortez · United States v. Arvizu · State v. Ariegwe · State v. Gopher
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In order to obtain or verify an account of the person’s presence or conduct or to determine whether to arrest the person, a peace officer may stop any person or vehicle that is observed in circumstances that create a particularized suspicion that the person or occupant of the vehicle has committed, is committing, or is about to commit an offense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Rodriguez
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.