Petrel v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
11
cited by 11 later decisions
1
states following
January 2008
most recently cited
11 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Whren v. United States · State v. Daniel
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“officer's reasons for a stop are immaterial and that stop is reasonable when the officer had probable cause to believe that a traffic violation occurred.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“test . . . is whether an officer could have stopped the vehicle for a traffic infraction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.