Kennison v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2018
Citation profile
11
cited by 11 later decisions
1
states following
November 2025
most recently cited
11 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Whren v. United States · Brendlin v. California · Heien v. North Carolina · O'BOYLE v. State
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) whether the initial stop was justified; and (2) whether the officer's actions during the detention were reasonably related in scope to the circumstances that justified the interference in the first instance.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Brown v. State · Gibson v. State“A traffic stop for a suspected violation of law is a 'seizure' of the occupants of the vehicle and therefore must be conducted in accordance with the Fourth Amendment.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Pier v. State · Gibson v. State“be carefully tailored to its underlying justification.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Pier v. State · Dixon v. State
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.