State v. Ellington’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently November 2015
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 Terry v. Ohio · Golden Pacific Bancorp v. United States · Logiudice v. Georgia · 441 So. 2d 1195 - State v. Belton · 637 So. 2d 1012 - State v. Davis
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.
“... [the officer] testified that he saw the defendant standing in an area known for high drug activity and, upon seeing the marked police car, put his hands in his pocket as if attempting to conceal something. These facts are not sufficient to justify the stop of the defendant. The officer did not testify that he saw the defendant engaging in what appeared to be a drug transaction, or that he saw a suspicious object that the defendant attempted to conceal. `A hunch or suspicion of illegal activity or transaction is insufficient to establish reasonable grounds to stop a person.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"Reasonable suspicion" is something less than the probable cause required for an arrest, and the reviewing court must look to the facts and circumstances of each case to determine whether the detaining officer had sufficient facts within his knowledge to justify an infringement of the suspect's rights. State v. Jones, [ 483 So.2d 1207 (La.App. 4th Cir.1986), writ den. 488 So.2d 197 (1986)]. Mere suspicion of activity is not a sufficient basis for police interference with an individual's freedom. State v. Williams, 421 So.2d 874 (La.1982).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“was suspicious and that it might be an attempt to conceal something in his pocket.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Devore
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.