Hammons v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably State v. Morris (2003), State v. Garcia-Cantu (2008)
49 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 · Illinois v. Gates · United States v. Mendenhall · Alabama v. White · Armistead v. Associated General Contractors of California
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A law enforcement officer lawfully present in any place may, in the performance of his duties, stop and detain any person who he reasonably suspects is committing, has committed, or is about to commit (1) a felony, or (2) a misdemeanor involving danger of forcible injury to persons or of appropriation of or damage to property, if such action is reasonably necessary either to obtain or ■ verify the identification of the person or to determine the lawfulness of his conduct.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Stewart v. State“Had this been a case where [the officer] stopped, detained, and then arrested [the appellant] solely on the basis of the anonymous tips, we would reverse the trial court.”
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.