State v. Louis’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
January 2002
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Pennsylvania v. Mimms · Abel v. United States · 543 So. 2d 732 - Kaisner v. Kolb · Rios v. United States
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“During a temporary encounter with a citizen, an officer, while engaged in a traffic investigation, may conduct a limited protective search of that citizen for weapons, even without probable cause to believe that a crime has been committed... . Tragically, roadside shootings of police officers in this state and country are frequent enough to be on the mind of every officer who makes a traffic stop. ... . "What is at most a mere inconvenience cannot prevail when balanced against legitimate concerns for the officer's safety."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“What is at most a mere inconvenience cannot prevail when balanced against legitimate concerns for the officer's safety.”
1 later decision 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.