State v. Willis’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently January 2015
15 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 Rakas v. Illinois · Pennsylvania v. Mimms · State v. Lothenbach · State v. Florine · State v. Vohnoutka
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“defendant had acted suspiciously as if he were trying to conceal something[,][d]efendant's failure to give any explanation for this conduct only increased the grounds for suspicion”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Flowers“[s]tanding where he had a right to stand * * * saw, in open view, the clip of the gun protruding from under the seat.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Flowers
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.