70 Ohio App. 3d 554 - State v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
165 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 165 later decisions — most recently January 2026 · most notably 117 Ohio App. 3d 750 - State v. Miller (1997), State v. Jones (2010)
165 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 · Mapp v. Ohio · United States v. Mendenhall · United States v. Cortez · Delaware v. Prouse
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 165 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that is, something more than an inchoate and unparticularized suspicion or 'hunch,' but less than the level of suspicion required for probable cause.”
33 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a] police officer may not rely on good faith and inarticulate hunches to meet the Terry standard of reasonable suspicion.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Brown · State v. Muldrow“]suspicious activity,["] there was nothing going on that would cause - - and this is based on the testimony - - that would cause a person to say, ["W]hat's going on here?["] (Hearing Tr. at 94.) Given that the trial court did not err in finding that the police did not have probable cause or reasonable suspicion to stop or seize Carter before running the numbers on the license plate of his vehicle, the question is whether they did, in fact, seize him in the sense contemplated by the law. {¶ 15} We have previously explained: "[N]ot all personal intercourse between policemen and citizens involves 'seizures' of persons. Only when the officer, by means of physical force or show of authority, has in some way restrained the liberty of a citizen may we conclude that a 'seizure' has occurred”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Bly · State v. Carter
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.