State v. Pearson’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently November 2017 · most notably State v. McClendon (1999), State v. Bishop (2009)
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 · State v. Butler · State v. Little · State v. Peck · 112 N.C. App. 688 - State v. Beveridge
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.
“[w]hen an officer observes conduct which leads him reasonably to believe that criminal conduct may be afoot, he may stop the suspicious person to make reasonable inquiries.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[m]any people become nervous when stopped by a state trooper”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“reasonably believes that the person is armed and dangerous, the officer may frisk the person to discover a weapon or weapons”
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.