State v. Bethley’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently June 2012
10 state decisions
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 · 338 So. 2d 584 - State v. Crosby · 441 So. 2d 1195 - State v. Belton · 434 So. 2d 389 - State v. Andrishok · 358 So. 2d 1274 - State v. Ryan
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it is only when the citizen is actually stopped without reasonable cause or when that stop is imminent that the right to `be let alone' is violated.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.