State v. Edwards’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
74 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably State v. Mooney (1991), State v. Trine (1996)
74 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 · Rakas v. Illinois · Florida v. Royer · Brown v. Illinois · United States v. Matlock
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[C]ertain seizures are justifiable under the Fourth Amendment even in the absence of probable cause if there is articulable suspicion that a person has committed or is about to commit a crime. Florida v. Rover, 460 U.S. 491 , 498 , 103 S.Ct. 1319 , 75 L.Ed.2d 229 (1983)] (plurality opinion) (emphasis added). United States v. Hensley, 469 U.S. 221 , 227 , 105 S.Ct. 675 , 83 L.Ed.2d 604 (1985).”
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.