Ohio v. Robinette’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
556 federal appellate · 150 district · 1,415 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,734 later decisions (47 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2026 · most notably Wilson v. Layne (1999), Maryland v. Wilson (1997)
556 federal appellate · 150 district · 1,415 state decisions — followed in 45 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Terry v. Ohio · Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Wong Sun v. United States · Schneckloth v. Bustamonte
Cited together with Terry v. Ohio · Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Whren v. United States · Florida v. Royer · Florida v. Jimeno
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 2,734 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Reasonableness, in turn, is measured in objective terms by examining the totality of the circumstances.”
64 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“is measured in objective terms by examining the totality of the circumstances.”
32 later decisions quote this exact passage“consistently eschewed bright-line rules, instead emphasizing the fact-specific nature of the reasonableness inquiry.”
15 later decisions 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.