State v. Darrah’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
109 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 109 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably 127 Ohio App. 3d 328 - State v. Long (1998), State v. Moore (2000)
109 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 · Adams v. Williams · Delaware v. Prouse · United States v. Robinson · Brown v. Texas
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 109 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) [a]n intent to arrest, (2) under a real or pretended authority, (3) accompanied by an actual or constructive seizure or detention of the person, and (4) which is so understood by the person arrested.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage“'Rather, arrest "signifies the apprehension of an individual or the restraint of a person's freedom in contemplation of the formal charging with a crime.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“the concept that receipt of a traffic citation is the functional equivalent of an arrest.”
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.