Knowles v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
December 2003
most recently cited
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Florida v. Royer · United States v. Mendenhall · California v. Hodari D. · Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Delgado · Florida v. Rodriguez
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“not whether the citizen perceived that he was being ordered to restrict his movement, but whether the officer's words and actions would have conveyed that to a reasonable person.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Finger 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.