State v. Carpena’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently December 2014
22 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 Brown v. Texas · State v. Swanigan
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A peace officer may stop any person in a public place when he has a reasonable suspicion to believe he has committed or is in the act of committing or is attempting to commit a public offense and may demand a name, address and an explanation of his actions.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Sierra · State v. Munsen“a car with out-of-state license plates [that] was moving slowly through a neighborhood late at night ... were involved in criminal activity”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(tlhe officer did not observe any criminal or traffic offense, and no report of a burglary had been reported to the police that night.”
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.