State v. Hetland’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
85 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 85 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably State v. Webb (1981), Hetland v. State (1980)
85 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 · Mapp v. Ohio · Adams v. Williams · Sibron v. State of New York Peters · Cooper v. State of California
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 85 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Circumstances can reasonably indicate that a person has committed, is committing, or is about to commit a violation of criminal laws ... without necessarily indicating that high probability of guilt which is implied by the term “probable cause”.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A] vague description simply would not justify a law enforcement officer in stopping every individual who ... might possibly meet that description.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Such detail carries a strong indication that the information is based on the personal observation of the informant.”
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.