Hollis v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
71 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably 4 Va. App. 577 - DePriest v. Commonwealth (1987), Brown v. Com. (2005)
71 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 · Aguilar v. Texas · Brinegar v. United States · Chimel v. California · Spinelli v. United States
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“what the totality of the circumstances meant to police officers trained in analyzing the observed conduct for purposes of crime control.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Brown v. Com. · Snell v. Com.
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.