Colorado v. Bannister’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
61 federal appellate · 28 district · 250 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 432 later decisions (20 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2020 · most notably Whren v. United States (1996), United States v. Ross (1982)
61 federal appellate · 28 district · 250 state decisions — followed in 31 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 Katz v. United States · Carroll v. United States · Chambers v. Maroney · Delaware v. Prouse · United States v. Brignoni-Ponce
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 432 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]here can be no question that the stopping of a vehicle and the detention of its occupants constitute a "seizure”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“exists when an automobile or other vehicle is stopped and the police have probable cause to believe it contains evidence of a crime.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Romero · Texas v. Brown“there was no evidence whatsoever that the officer's presence to issue a traffic citation was a pretext to confirm any other previous suspicion about the occupants”
1 later decision 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.