Matthews, Cornelious L.’s Empirical Analysis
2014
Citation profile
17 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas Court of Appeals, 8th District (El Paso))
Relationships
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Illinois v. Gates · Rakas v. Illinois · Jones v. United States · United States v. Sokolow
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The propriety of the stop's duration is judged by assessing whether the police diligently pursued a means of investigation that was likely to dispel or confirm their suspicions quickly.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Villarreal 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.