State v. Bridge’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently June 2010
14 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 · United States v. Cortez · Adams v. Williams · 21 Cal. 3d 888 - Fare v. Tony C. · United States v. Holland
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Because the purpose of an investigative stop "is to clarify ambiguous situations, `even if it was equally probable that the vehicle or its occupants were innocent of any wrongdoing, police must be permitted to act before their reasonable belief is verified by escape or fruition of the harm it was their duty to prevent.'"”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Bowers · State v. Wollam““An investigatory stop must be justified by an objective manifestation, based upon the totality of the circumstances, that the person stopped has been, is, or is about to be engaged in criminal activity.” State v. Ege, 227 Neb. 824, 826 , 420 N.W.2d 305, 308 (1988) (citing United States v. Cortez, 449 U.S. 411 , 101 S. Ct. 690 , 66 L. Ed. 2d 621 (1981)). The factual basis for the stop need not be the officer’s personal observations alone, but may arise from information provided by another person. Adams v. Williams, 407 U.S. 143 , 92 S. Ct. 1921 , 32 L. Ed. 2d 612 (1972); State v. Ege, supra. When the information providing the factual basis for the stop is furnished by another person, it must contain sufficient indicia of reliability. State v. Ege, supra. A detailed eyewitness report of a crime by an informant provides its own indicia of reliability because a citizen informant who has personally observed the commission of a crime is presumed to be reliable. State v. Ege, supra.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"The possibility of an innocent explanation does not deprive the officer of the capacity to entertain a reasonable suspicion of criminal conduct. Indeed, the principal function of his investigation is to resolve that very ambiguity and establish whether the activity is in fact legal or illegalto `enable the police to quickly determine whether they should allow the suspect to go about his business or hold him to answer charges.'"”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Wollam
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.