State v. Lamme’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 288 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 293 later decisions — most recently June 2021 · most notably State v. Geisler (1992), State v. Oquendo (1992)
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 288 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Terry v. Ohio · Mathews v. Eldridge · Morrissey v. Brewer · Florida v. Royer
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 293 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“reasonable and articulable suspicion that a person has committed or is about to commit a crime.”
19 later decisions quote this exact passage“the most significant aspect of the pre-1818 declaration of rights is that it had constitutional overtones even though it was statutory in form. The [d]eclaration and supplementary statutes relating to individual rights were grounded in the Connecticut common law and viewed as inviolate. Abridgements perpetrated by the government were considered void on their face and courts were to refuse to enforce them .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Peeler“Thereafter, the odor of alcohol on the defendant's breath furnished a reasonable and articulable suspicion that the defendant might be involved in criminal activity and justified his further detention for the limited intrusion represented by sobriety testing at the place where he was being detained,”
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.