5 Ohio App. 2d 122 - State v. Terry’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2025 · most notably Terry v. Ohio (1968), State v. Barker (1978)
6 federal appellate · 43 state decisions — followed in 11 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 Wong Sun v. United States · Carroll v. United States · Mapp v. Ohio · Brinegar v. United States · Beck v. State of Ohio
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) [a]n intent to arrest, (2) under a real or pretended authority, (3) accompanied by an actual or constructive seizure or detention of the person, * * * (4) which is so understood by the person arrested.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence““A policeman may, under appropriate circumstances, reasonably inquire of a person concerning such person’s suspicious on-the-street behavior. The stopping and questioning of a suspicious person does not violate the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution and does not constitute an arrest in the technical criminal-law sense. A required element of an arrest is the intent of the officer to make an arrest(Emphasis added.)”
2 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.