State v. Reed’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
13
cited by 13 later decisions
2
states following
May 1994
most recently cited
13 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Chimel v. California · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Adams v. Williams · Pennsylvania v. Mimms
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he exposed weapon was a source of potential danger to the officers' safety ... [and] it would be unreasonable to require that police officers take unnecessary risks in the performance of their duties.”
1 later decision 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.