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← 261 Ind. 547 - Williams v. State

Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1974

Citation profile

67
cited by 67 later decisions
3
states following
December 2011
most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 65 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently December 2011 · most notably United States v. Mahone (1976), Perkins v. Eskridge (1976)

2 federal appellate · 65 state decisions

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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 · Wong Sun v. United States · Carroll v. United States · Mapp v. Ohio · Beck v. State of Ohio

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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “point to specific and articulable facts which, taken together with rational inferences from those facts,”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
    e.g. Gipson v. State · Sell v. State
  2. “"Social interest under the police powers should give law officers the right to stop users of the highways to check, for instance, their right to use the highway or to check the vehicles for safety standards.... Similarly, we have the search of passengers boarding airplanes."”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
    e.g. 178 Ind. App. 676 - Irwin v. State · State v. Garcia
  3. “"in situations, of this sort the question is `whether the facts known ... at the time he (a police officer) stopped the car were sufficient to warrant a man of reasonable caution in the belief that an investigation was appropriate.'"”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
    e.g. 164 Ind. App. 438 - Fingers v. State

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.