State v. Applegate’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently December 2025
20 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 · Whren v. United States · Pennsylvania v. Mimms · United States v. Sharpe · Devenpeck v. Alford
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[In determining whether the seizure and search were 'unreasonable' our inquiry is a dual one-whether the officer's action was justified at its inception, and whether it was reasonably related in scope to the circumstances which justified the interference in the first place.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a] brief, investigatory stop of a vehicle”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“We review for clear error the factual findings underlying a district court's decision to deny a motion to suppress.”
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.