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← 343 S.C. 198 - State v. Butler

State v. Butler’s Empirical Analysis

2000

Citation profile

32
cited by 32 later decisions
6
states following
May 2016
most recently cited

32 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Wong Sun v. United States · Whren v. United States · United States v. Cortez · Delaware v. Prouse

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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[T]he mere presence of a temporary tag on the back of a car, without more, is insufficient to provide a reasonable suspicion that the driver is violating registration or insurance laws or that the driver is otherwise involved in criminal activity.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “`less than the level of suspicion required for probable cause.'”
    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.