Wilson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently September 2017
1 federal appellate · 20 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. Brignoni-Ponce · Pennsylvania v. Mimms · Maryland v. Wilson
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 command preventing an innocent passenger from leaving the scene of a traffic stop to continue on his independent way is a greater intrusion upon personal liberty than an order simply directing a passenger out of the vehicle.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Barrios v. State · Lopez v. State“[A] police officer conducting • a lawful stop,may not, as a matter of course, order a passenger who has left the stopped vehicle ,to return to and remain in the vehicle until completion of the stop. The officer must have an articula-ble founded suspicion of criminal activity or a reasonable belief that the passenger poses a. threat to the safety of the officer, himself, or others before ordering the passenger to return to and remain in the vehicle.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a] wholly innocent passenger should have the right to choose whether to continue on with his business or return to the vehicle and remain by his driver-companion's side.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Barrios v. State · People v. Dixon
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.