649 So. 2d 1078 - State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
77 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 77 later decisions — most recently February 2017 · most notably 747 So. 2d 1074 - State v. Colomb (1999), 683 So. 2d 812 - State v. Lassere (1996)
77 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Terry v. Ohio · 338 So. 2d 584 - State v. Crosby · 523 So. 2d 1305 - State v. Mussall · 603 So. 2d 731 - State v. Hearold
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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When a law enforcement officer has stopped a person for questioning pursuant to this Article and reasonably suspects that he is in danger, he may frisk the outer clothing of such person for a dangerous weapon. If the law enforcement officer reasonably suspects the person possesses a dangerous weapon, he may search the person.”
20 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hughes · State v. Sheehan“The officer need not be absolutely certain that the person is armed, but the officer must be warranted in his belief that his safety or that of others is in danger.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Anderson · State v. Hughes“[i]t is no longer true that whatever forms part of the res gestae is admissible, and such evidence remains subject to the balancing test of La.Code Evid. Ann. art. 403 (West 1994).”
6 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Phillips · State v. Arvie
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.