Sowell v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
July 2008
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Mendenhall · Delaware v. Prouse · United States v. Brignoni-Ponce · Brown v. Texas · United States v. Martinez-Fuerte
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The reasonableness of the seizures or detentions that are less intrusive than a traditional arrest depends on a balance between the public interest and the individual’s right to personal security free from arbitrary interference by law officers. Consideration of the constitutionality of such seizures involves a weighing of the gravity of the public concerns served by the seizure, the degree to which the seizure advances the public interest, and the severity of the interference with the individual liberty.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Coffia 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.