Webb v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
15
cited by 15 later decisions
10
states following
June 1988
most recently cited
15 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Delaware v. Prouse · United States v. Martinez-Fuerte · Perez. v. Campbell · South Dakota v. Neville
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If roadblocks can be maintained to stop all persons, regardless of how innocent their conduct for the purpose of investigating or arresting drunk drivers, then presumably similar stops of all citizens could be undertaken for questioning and surveillance with regard to other crimes, such as possession of narcotics, possession of stolen property, or burglary. . . . Taking [such] an “end justifies the means” approach, would lose sight of a basic tenet of American jurisprudence — that the government cannot assume criminal conduct in effectuating a stop such as the one in the instant case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Record
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.