30 Wash. App. 392 - State v. Stroud’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
84 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 84 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably State v. Mendez (1999), State v. O'NEILL (2003)
84 state decisions — followed in 17 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 · Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · United States v. Mendenhall · United States v. Cortez · Delaware v. Prouse
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 84 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment only when, by means of physical force or a show of authority, his freedom of movement is restrained.... There is a”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“in view of all of the circumstances ... a reasonable person would have believed that he was not free to leave.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“a show of authority sufficient to convey to any reasonable person that voluntary departure from the scene was not a realistic alternative.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.