Michigan v. Chesternut’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
787 federal appellate · 145 district · 1,240 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,679 later decisions (28 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2025 · most notably Florida v. Bostick (1991), California v. Hodari D. (1991)
787 federal appellate · 145 district · 1,240 state decisions — followed in 42 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 · Florida v. Royer · United States v. Mendenhall · United States v. Cortez · Michigan v. Long
Cited together with Terry v. Ohio · United States v. Mendenhall · Florida v. Royer · Florida v. Bostick · Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Delgado
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 2,679 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a reasonable person would have believed that he was not free to leave.”
161 later decisions quote this exact passage“is relevant . . . only to the extent that that intent has been conveyed to the person confronted.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“respondent's unprovoked flight gave the police ample cause to stop him”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.