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607 F.2d 847 · 1979

Citation profile

95
cited by 95 later decisions
11
states following
April 2016
most recently cited

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

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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.

  1. “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 majority
  2. “It is not unreasonable to suspect that a dealer in narcotics might be armed.”
    7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “`[T]he quantum of cause necessary to justify an investigatory stop is a”
    6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority

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.