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State v. Styles’s Empirical Analysis

2008

Citation profile

113
cited by 113 later decisions
1
states following
June 2019
most recently cited

113 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Wong Sun v. United States · Carroll v. United States · Mapp v. Ohio · Brinegar 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 113 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “Reasonable suspicion is a 'less demanding standard than probable cause and requires a showing considerably less than preponderance of the evidence.'”
    21 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
  2. “A traffic stop is a seizure 'even though the purpose of the stop is limited and the resulting detention quite brief.'”
    17 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
  3. “reasonable suspicion is the necessary standard for traffic stops.”
    7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent

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.