Gomez v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
27
cited by 27 later decisions
4
states following
May 2001
most recently cited
15 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Ricks v. District of Columbia · Gomez v. Layton · Gomez v. Wilson · Anderson v. Superior Court
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is quite plain that the Fourth Amendment governs “seizures” of the person which do not eventuate in a trip to the station house and prosecution for crime — “arrests” in traditional terminology. It must be recognized that whenever a police officer accosts an individual and restrains bis freedom to walk away, lie has “seized” that person.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““[W]hen a policeman stops and questions a person on the street, that person to a degree is restrained that person has been seized within the scope of the Fourth Amendment.”
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.