People v. Ingle’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 136 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 157 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2001 · most notably Delaware v. Prouse (1979), United States v. Montgomery (1977)
8 federal appellate · 136 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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.
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 157 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It should be emphasized that the factual basis required to support a stop for a “routine traffic check” is minimal.... All that is required is that the stop be not the product of mere whim, caprice, or idle curiosity. It is enough if the stop is based upon “specific and articulable facts which, taken together with rational inferences from those facts, reasonably warrant [the] intrusion[.]””
21 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.