Ransome v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently December 2022 · most notably Bost v. State (2008), Crosby v. State (2009)
60 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 · Illinois v. Gates · Carroll v. United States · Ornelas v. United States · Whren 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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We understand that conduct that would seem innocent to an average layperson may properly be regarded as suspicious by a trained or experienced officer, but if the officer seeks to justify a Fourth Amendment intrusion based on that conduct, the officer ordinarily must offer some explana tion of why he or she regarded the conduct as suspicious; otherwise, there is no ability to review the officer’s action.””
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“had done nothing to attract police attention other than being on the street with a bulge in his pocket at the same time [the officer] drove by.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“factor that, by itself, may be entirely neutral and innocent, can, when viewed in combination with other circumstances, raise a legitimate suspicion in the mind of an experienced officer.”
2 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.