State v. Kyles’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 145 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 148 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably State v. Oquendo (1992), State v. Robinson (1993)
3 federal appellate · 145 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 · Florida v. Royer · Michigan v. Long · DiCarlantonio v. United States · Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. v. LTV Corp.
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 148 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[u]nder both the federal and state constitutions, police may detain an individual for investigative purposes if there is a reasonable and articulable suspicion that the individual is engaged or about to engage in criminal activity .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[o]nce a reasonable and articulable suspicion exists, the detaining officer may conduct an investigative `stop' of the suspect to confirm or dispel his suspicions. . . .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“conducting a Terry stop of an automobile may search the passenger compartment of the automobile for weapons, limited to areas where the weapon might be hidden, if the officer reasonably believes the suspect is potentially dangerous.”
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.