State v. Field’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
2 district · 92 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 94 later decisions — most recently March 2024 · most notably State v. Rice (1997), Rowe v. State (2001)
2 district · 92 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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 · Delaware v. Prouse · United States v. Sokolow · United States v. Brignoni-Ponce
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 94 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(1) Without making an arrest, a law enforcement officer may stop any person in a public place whom such officer reasonably suspects is committing, has committed or is about to commit a crime and may demand of the name, address of such suspect and an explanation of such suspect’s actions.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Moore · State v. Weaver“[A] civil or criminal infraction is not always essential to justify a vehicle stop. Safety reasons alone may justify the stop, if the safety reasons are based on specific and articulable facts.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. McDonald · State v. Ellis““[T]he court should consider the totality of the circumstances and the fact that trained law enforcement officers are permitted to malee ‘inferences and deductions that might well elude an untrained person.’ United States v. Cortez, 449 U.S. 411, 418 , 66 L. Ed. 2d 621 , 101 S. Ct. 690 (1981). See State v. Kvam, 336 N.W.2d 525, 528 (Minn. 1983).” State v. Field, 252 Kan. 657, 660 , 847 P.2d 1280 (1993).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.