State v. Thill’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
1 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently March 2016
1 district · 16 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 · United States v. Cortez · Delaware v. Prouse · United States v. Pope · People v. Ingle
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.
“Notwithstanding the general freedom to avoid police confrontation, we find the avoidance of the police roadblock in this instance was sufficient to create an articulable and reasonable suspicion of criminal activity. Automobiles and their use on state roads are the subject of significant state regulation (e.g.[,] licensing, registration). This fact distinguishes the cases relied upon in [State v. Talbot, 792 P.2d 489 (Utah Ct.App.1990) ], the majority of which involved pedestrians. And while people are not shorn of their Fourth Amendment protection when they step from the sidewalks into their automobiles, Prouse, 440 U.S. at 663 [, 99 S.Ct. 1391 ,] their actions on the road become subject to increased state regulation and restriction. Consequently, actions taken on the road, the character of which would be innocent in another context, may well give rise to an articulable and reasonable suspicion of a violation of the law respecting the use or ownership of an automobile.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Heapy“turnabout at the entrance of the roadblock and his subsequent circuitous route constituted a reasonable suspicion that [the driver] was in violation of the law respecting the use or ownership of an automobile”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Heapy“It is enough if the stop is based upon `specific and articulable facts which, taken together with rational inferences from those facts, reasonably warrant the intrusion.'”
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.