Earls v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
December 1991
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Adams v. Williams · Songer v. Wainwright, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, Et Al. · Burris v. State · Harris v. State
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A brief stop of a suspicious individual, in order to determine his identity or to maintain the status quo momentarily while obtaining more information, may be most reasonable in light of the facts known the officer at the time.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Russell v. State
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.