621 So. 2d 199 - State v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently December 2011
22 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 · California v. Hodari D. · 411 So. 2d 1074 - State v. Hathaway · 421 So. 2d 874 - State v. Williams · 566 So. 2d 394 - State v. Sheehan
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“he turned immediately and quickly walked away.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“A hunch or suspicion of illegal activity or transactions is insufficient to establish reasonable grounds to stop a person.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“"In Louisiana, it is well-settled that police cannot actively create street encounters... unless they have articulable knowledge of suspicious facts and circumstances to allow them to infringe upon the suspect's right to be free from governmental interference."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.