State v. Brooks’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 165 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 167 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably Whitacre Partnership v. Biosignia, Inc. (2004), State v. Biber (2011)
2 federal appellate · 165 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 924 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Terry v. Ohio · United States v. Mendenhall · Ashe v. Swenson · Montana v. United States
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 167 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'so long as a reasonable person would understand that he or she could refuse to cooperate.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“The rule of Miranda requiring that suspects be informed of their constitutional rights before being questioned by the police only applies to custodial interrogation.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he test for determining whether a seizure has occurred is whether under the totality of the circumstances a reasonable person would feel that he was not free to decline the officers' request or otherwise terminate the encounter.”
2 later decisions 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.