State v. Bennett’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently May 2003 · most notably State v. Melear (1981), 533 So. 2d 701 - Molina v. State (1988)
30 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 · Wong Sun v. United States · United States v. Wade · Neil v. Biggers · Stovall v. Denno
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]n order for a police officer to conduct a valid stop ... , he must have observed specific conduct on the part of the person whom he is about to stop. . . , or have reliable information from which he may reasonably infer that criminal activity is afoot. . . . And the test of whether the officer’s conduct of intrusion was reasonable is to be determined by whether the facts known to the officer, judged against an objective standard, would warrant a man of reasonable caution to believe that the action taken was appropriate. In determining the reasonableness of the officer’s conduct, the information which he has on hand is vital, but he is not limited to his own personal knowledge. Where police officers are acting in concert and are keeping each other informed of the progress of a particular investigation, the knowledge of each is deemed the knowledge of all. State v. Barnes, 58 Haw. 333, 336 , 568 P.2d 1207, 1210 (1977). Also what is reasonable depends “on a balance between the public interest and the indivi dual’s right to personal security free from arbitrary interference by law officers.” United States v. Brignoni-Ponce, 422 U.S. 873, 878 (1975).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the opportunity of the witness to view the criminal at the time of the crime, the witness’ degree of attention, the accuracy of the witness’ prior description of the criminal, the level of certainty demonstrated by the witness at the confrontation, and the length of time between the crime and confrontation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Masaniai
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.