State v. Whittenback’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently March 2010 · most notably State v. Thurman (1993), State v. Ramirez (1991)
38 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 · Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Rakas v. Illinois · Beck v. State of Ohio · United States v. Robinson
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1) the absence of a claim of authority to search by the officers; 2) the absence of an exhibition of force by the officers; 8) a mere request to search; 4) cooperation by the owner of the [property]; and 5) the absence of deception or trick on the part of the officer.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Genovesi · State v. Harmon“The Utah Supreme Court has noted that [w]hen a police officer sees or hears conduct which gives rise to suspicion of crime, he has not only the right but the duty to make observations and investigations to determine whether the law is being violated; and if so, to take such measures as are necessary in the enforcement of the law.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Menke · State v. Deitman“whether from the facts known to the officer, and the inferences which fairly might be drawn therefrom, a reasonable and prudent person in his position would be justified in believing that the suspect had committed the offense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Layton City v. Noon
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.