Rowe v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 109 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 117 later decisions — most recently December 2020 · most notably Commonwealth v. Chase (2008), Wilkes v. State (2001)
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 109 state decisions — followed in 16 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 Terry v. Ohio · Whren v. United States · United States v. Cortez · Delaware v. Prouse · Florida v. Bostick
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 117 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“reasonable suspicion that the car is being driven contrary to the laws governing the operation of motor vehicles or that either the car or any of its occupants is subject to seizure or detention in connection with the violation of any other applicable laws.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“amount to an unsafe lane change or unsafe entry onto the roadway.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“(b) Driving by single lane required. — A vehicle shall be driven as nearly as practicable entirely within a single lane and may not be moved from that lane or moved from a shoulder or bikeway into a lane until the driver has determined that it is safe to do so.”
3 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.