State v. Baker’s Empirical Analysis
2010
Citation profile
68
cited by 68 later decisions
2
cited 2 times by the Supreme Court
8
states following
November 2025
most recently cited
2 federal appellate · 61 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · United States v. Leon · Florida v. Royer · United States v. Brignoni-Ponce · New York v. Belton
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 68 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.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Adamson · State v. Stewart“[i]f, during the scope of the traffic stop, the officer forms new reasonable articulable suspicion of criminal activity, the officer may also expediently investigate his new suspicion”
7 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Stewart · State v. Sosa“'is measured in objective terms by examining the totality of the cireumstances.'”
6 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Sosa · State v. Malloy
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.