Commonwealth v. Stoute’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
14 district · 145 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 159 later decisions — most recently April 2022 · most notably Commonwealth v. Grandison (2001), Commonwealth v. DePeiza (2007)
14 district · 145 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 · Katz v. United States · Florida v. Royer · United States v. Mendenhall · Florida v. Bostick
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 159 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Specifically, the 'test for determining reasonable suspicion should include consideration of the possibility of the possession of a gun, and the government's need for prompt investigation.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[N]ot every encounter between a law enforcement official and a member of the public constitutes [a seizure]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[S]tops provoke constitutional scrutiny because they encumber a person’s freedom of movement. Pursuit that appears designed to effect a stop is no less intrusive than a stop itself. Framed slightly differently, a pursuit, which, objectively considered, indicates to a person that he would not be free to leave the area (or to remain there) without first responding to a police officer’s inquiry, is the functional equivalent of a seizure, in the sense that the person being pursued is plainly the object of an official assertion of authority, which does not intend to be denied, and which infringes considerably on the person’s freedom of action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Beauchesne
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.