Wilson v. Porter’s Empirical Analysis
361 F.2d 412 · 1966
Citation profile
138 federal appellate · 5 district · 74 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 236 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably Cotton v. United States (1967), State v. Gopher (1981)
138 federal appellate · 5 district · 74 state decisions — followed in 21 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.
Relationships
Relies on Linkletter v. Walker · United States v. Di Re · Rios v. United States · Taglavore 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 236 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'A founded suspicion is all that is necessary, some basis from which the court can determine that the detention was not arbitrary or harassing.'”
39 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“. . . `[T]he local policeman, in addition to having a duty to enforce the criminal laws of his jurisdiction, is also in a very real sense a guardian of the public peace and he has a duty in the course of his work to be alert for suspicious circumstances, and, provided that he acts within constitutional limits to investigate whenever such circumstances indicate to him that he should do so.' (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wright v. State“turned on their red light to have appellee pull over. * * * One of the officers walked to the right hand side of the car, requested the passenger to get out, and asked for identification. As the passenger opened the car, the officer, standing outside the car, shone his flashlight into the car and saw what appeared to be a gun barrel protruding from under the seat.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Cloman
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.