Meadows v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently January 2011 · most notably Stone v. State (2002), Stewart v. State (1998)
2 federal appellate · 39 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 Rodriquez v. State
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We have emphasized the word “otherwise” [in the quote] because the insertion of that word shows beyond question that the officer’s request for information must be in aid of the investigation or prevention of crime. Here there is nothing in the officers’ testimony to support a belief that Officer Sanders asked Meadows for identification in the course of a criminal investigation.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“A law enforcement officer lawfully present in any place may, in the performance of his duties, stop and detain any person who he reasonably suspects is committing, has committed, or is about to commit (1) a felony, or (2) a misdemeanor involving danger of forcible injury to persons or of appropriation of or damage to property, if such action is reasonably necessary either to obtain or verify the identification of the person or to determine the lawfulness of his conduct.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hammons v. State“Here the officer’s sole reason for approaching the two men was their conduct in looking back and in quickening their pace upon being followed. That conduct, however, could not possibly suggest that Meadows or Duncan had committed or were about to commit any particular type of felony or misdemeanor, which is necessarily what Rule 3.1 refers to.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hammons 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.