State v. Powell’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
1 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently March 2016
1 district · 15 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.
Relationships
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Michigan Department of State Police v. Sitz · State v. Talbot · Snyder v. State · State v. Fournier
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although the officer may have suspected that Powell reversed his direction to avoid the roadblock, the court did not find that suspicion reasonable. The court found that the most the officer could reasonably conclude from Powell’s actions was that he turned around in the face of police lights and cruisers in the distance. Under the circumstances of this case, the court was not compelled to find that the officer had a reasonable suspicion of criminal activity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“We hold that avoiding a roadblock, even assuming its legality, without more, does not create an articulable suspicion that the occupants have engaged in or are about to engage in criminal activity. The act merely demonstrates a desire to avoid police confrontation ... and at best only gives rise to a hunch that criminal activity may be afoot.”
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.