Lloyd Charles Powell v. W. T. Stone, Warden’s Empirical Analysis
507 F.2d 93 · 1974
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1997 · most notably Stone v. Powell (1976), 97 Wash. 2d 92 - State v. White (1982)
15 federal appellate · 5 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Chapman v. State of California · Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Stovall v. Denno · Coolidge v. New Hampshire
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the public interest is served by deterring legislators from enacting such statutes.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“arrest and conviction for conduct that is no more than suspicious,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“refuses to identify himself and to account for his presence when asked by a police officer to do so if surrounding circumstances are such as to indicate to a reasonable man that the public safety demands such identification,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.