State v. Kearns’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
97 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 97 later decisions — most recently February 2022 · most notably State v. Toyomura (1995), State v. Richie (1998)
97 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 Florida v. Royer · Escobedo v. Illinois · Florida v. Bostick · Baehr v. Lewin · Younger v. Younger
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 97 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[T]he police may temporarily detain an individual if they have a reasonable suspicion based on specific and articulable facts that criminal activity is afoot.'”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Iona. · State v. Tominiko“[A] person is seized if, given the totality of the circumstances, a reasonable person would have believed that he or she was not free to leave.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] person is seized, for purposes of article I, section 7 of the Hawai'i Constitution, when a police officer approaches that person for the express or implied purpose of investigating him or her for possible criminal violations and begins to ask for information.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Kekona · State v. Tominiko
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.