State v. Bobo’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
1,105 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,105 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably 127 Ohio App. 3d 328 - State v. Long (1998), 73 Ohio App. 3d 486 - State v. Klein (1991)
1,105 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 · Adams v. Williams · United States v. Brignoni-Ponce · Michigan v. Long · Ohio v. Freeman
Cited together with Terry v. Ohio · State v. Fanning · State v. Burnside · United States v. Cortez · Katz 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 1,105 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where a police officer, during an investigative stop, has a reasonable suspicion that an individual is armed based on the totality of the circumstances, the officer may initiate a protective search for the safety of himself and others.”
128 later decisions quote this exact passage“intrusions upon constitutionally guaranteed rights based on nothing more substantial than inarticulate hunches.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“a police officer may in appropriate circumstances and in an appropriate manner approach a person for purposes of investigating possible criminal behavior even though there is no probable cause to make an arrest.”
3 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.