State v. Gant’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
130 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 130 later decisions — most recently August 2023 · most notably State v. Reynolds (2003), State v. Montgomery (2000)
130 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 · Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Bagley · Payton v. New York · Warden, Maryland Penitentiary v. Hayden
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 130 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[r]easonable and articulable suspicion is an objective standard that focuses not on the actual state of mind of the police officer, but on whether a reasonable person, having the information available to and known by the police, would have had that level of suspicion. . . . the police officer's decision . . . must be based on more than a hunch or speculation. . . . In justifying the particular intrusion the police officer must be able to point to specific and articulable facts which taken together with rational inferences from those facts, reasonably warrant that intrusion. . . . State v. Gant , 231 Conn. 43 , 65 , 646 A.2d 835 CT Page 1425-ak (1994), cert. denied, 514 U.S. 1038 , 115 S.Ct. 1404 , 131 L.Ed.2d 291 (1995).”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“The combination of guns and children can be fatal”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Probable cause means more than mere suspicion. There must be facts and circumstances within the officer's knowledge and of which he has trustworthy information, sufficient to justify the belief of a reasonable person that an offense has been or is being committed.”
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.