State v. Stevens’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
159 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 161 later decisions — most recently February 2017 · most notably Hunter v. State (1995), Kehoe v. State (1988)
159 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 · 245 So. 2d 225 - State v. Ashby · 348 So. 2d 326 - Coladonato v. State · 337 So. 2d 1031 - Lewis v. State · Thomas v. State
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 161 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is a suspicion which has some factual foundation in the circumstances observed by the officer, when those circumstances are interpreted in the light of the officer's knowledge.”
49 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Laina · State v. Law“(2) Whenever any law enforcement officer of this state encounters any person under circumstances which reasonably indicate that such person has committed, is committing, or is about to commit a violation of the criminal laws of this state or the criminal ordinances of any municipality or county, he may temporarily detain such person for the purpose of ascertaining the identity of the person temporarily detained and the circumstances surrounding his presence abroad which led the officer to believe that he had committed, was committing, or was about to commit a criminal offense.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“there were numerous factors which, when interpreted in the light of [the policeman's] knowledge of the area and of a previous crime, gave foundation to his suspicion... .”
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.