State v. Truss’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently September 2016 · most notably 441 So. 2d 1195 - State v. Belton (1983), Commonwealth v. Thibeau (1981)
30 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 · Sibron v. State of New York Peters · 302 So. 2d 869 - State v. Saia · State v. Winesberry · 307 So. 2d 291 - State v. Scott
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Mere suspicious activity, without any relationship to law violation, is not sufficient basis for police interference with the freedom of an individual.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“got a very startled look on his face, `moved back a little' and `continued on down the platform of the bus station,' when he saw the police.”
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.