67 Ohio St. 3d 405 - State v. Evans’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
553 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 557 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2026 · most notably State v. Mays (2008), 96 Ohio App. 3d 649 - State v. Venham (1994)
553 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 · Illinois v. Gates · Aguilar v. Texas · Spinelli v. United States · Adams v. Williams
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 557 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The right to frisk is virtually automatic when individuals are suspected of committing a crime, like drug trafficking, for which they are likely to be armed.”
25 later decisions quote this exact passage“`search is not to discover evidence of a crime, but to allow the officer to pursue his investigation without fear of violence.'”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“the police officer must be able to point to specific and articulable facts which, taken together with rational inferences from those facts, reasonably warrant that intrusion.”
8 later decisions 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.