People v. Long’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1996
9 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.
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 Court of Appeals erroneously applied the principles of Terry v. Ohio . . . to the search of the interior of the vehicle in this case.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“` Terry authorized only a limited pat-down search of a person suspected of criminal activity' rather than a search of an area.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the sole justification of the Terry search, protection of the police officers and others nearby, cannot justify the search in this case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Michigan v. Long
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.