State v. Greenfield’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
206 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 206 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably State v. Sivri (1994), State v. Reynolds (2003)
206 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 United States v. Mendenhall · California v. Hodari D. · Conway v. Statesman Mortgage Co. · Pledger v. Medlock · Guardians Association v. Civil Service Commission of City of New York
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 206 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a person is seized only if in view of all of the circumstances surrounding the incident, a reasonable person would have believed that he was not free to leave.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“bloodied, unconscious, his forehead visibly compressed, outside his blood-soaked apartment”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“not the slightest evidence that the defendant made any attempt to help the victim”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.