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State v. Lear’s Empirical Analysis

1998

Citation profile

7
cited by 7 later decisions
2
states following
July 2025
most recently cited

1 district · 6 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently July 2025

1 district · 6 state decisions

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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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Pennsylvania v. Muniz · State v. Swett · State v. Worster · State v. Dean

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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “articulable suspicion” of a civil violation or criminal activity; and (2) such suspicion is "objectively reasonable in the totality of the circumstances.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

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.