Reid v. Georgia’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
893 federal appellate · 119 district · 765 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,173 later decisions (17 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2025 · most notably Florida v. Royer (1983), Ornelas v. United States (1996)
893 federal appellate · 119 district · 765 state decisions — followed in 45 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 · United States v. Mendenhall · Adams v. Williams · Delaware v. Prouse · United States v. Brignoni-Ponce
Cited together with Terry v. Ohio · United States v. Mendenhall · Florida v. Royer · United States v. Cortez · 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 2,173 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a very large category of presumably innocent travelers.”
63 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a somewhat informal compilation of characteristics believed to be typical of persons unlawfully carrying narcotics.”
30 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“supported by a reasonable and articulable suspicion that the person [was] engaged in criminal activity.”
30 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.