State v. Capers’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
February 1998
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Wong Sun v. United States · United States v. Mendenhall · State v. Burch · State v. Elmourabit
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 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The officer here was able to be quite specific in articulating the facts of appellant’s appearance and conduct * * * which led to the officer’s suspicion; the officer was not required to consider every possible interpretation of those facts before stopping appellant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Harris
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.