State v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
141 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 145 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably State v. Watkins (1994), State v. Steen (2000)
141 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 · Adams v. Williams · United States v. Brignoni-Ponce · United States v. Hall · State v. Streeter
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 145 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`[T]he police officer must be able to point to specific and articulable facts which, taken together with rational inferences from those facts, reasonably warrant [the] intrusion.'”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“the court must view the totality of the circumstances through the eyes of a reasonable and cautious police officer at the scene.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“examine both the articulable facts known to the officers at the time they determined to approach and investigate the activities of the [suspects] . . . and the rational inferences which the officers were entitled to draw from those facts.”
1 later decision 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.