United States v. Post’s Empirical Analysis
607 F.2d 847 · 1979
Citation profile
53 federal appellate · 2 district · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 95 later decisions — most recently April 2016 · most notably Carmouche v. State (2000), United States v. Sutton (1986)
53 federal appellate · 2 district · 32 state decisions — followed in 11 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 Terry v. Ohio · Franks v. Delaware · Beck v. State of Ohio · Adams v. Williams · Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory
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 95 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“suspicion that the person has committed or is about to commit a criminal act. . . . The founded suspicion must arise from specific facts and not inchoate hunches, but the officer is entitled to draw inferences from those facts in light of his experience.'”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. RW v. State · State v. McPherson“It is not unreasonable to suspect that a dealer in narcotics might be armed.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`[T]he quantum of cause necessary to justify an investigatory stop is a”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. RW v. State · Harden 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.