State v. Moran’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently September 2018
23 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 United States v. Cortez · Delaware v. Prouse · Coleman v. State · United States v. Holland · Ebona v. State
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“) is that the totality of the circumstances-the whole picture-must be taken into account. Based upon that whole picture,] the detaining officers must have a particularized and objective basis for suspecting the particular person stopped of criminal activity. Id. (citing 449 U.S. 411, 417-18 , 101 S.Ct. 690, 695 , 66 LEd.2d 621, 628-29 (1981)). The essential dispute in the present case involves the proper interpretation of this last-quoted sentence from Cortes: specifical ly, the meaning of the phrase”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. McGee v. State · Miller v. State“By contrast [to probable cause], as is suggested by the reference in Terry [Terry v. Ohio, 392 U.S. 1 , 88 S.Ct. 1868 , 20 L.Ed.2d 889 (1968)] to a reasonable belief “that criminal activity may be afoot,” it would seem clear that the more-probable-than-not standard is never applicable to a brief stopping for investigation. Rather, it will suffice that there exists a substantial possibility that criminal conduct has occurred, is occurring, or is about to occur. [Emphasis in original.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Gibson v. State · State v. Miller“[The trial judge] apparently believed that a policeman may not make an investigatory stop unless he sees the person he ultimately stops do something dangerous. This is an incorrect reading of Coleman . It is sufficient if the officer observes facts which lead him to reasonably believe that the person to be stopped is dangerous.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Burnett v. State · Larson 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.