State v. Talbot’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
1 district · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently March 2020 · most notably State v. Pena (1994), State v. Lopez (1994)
1 district · 38 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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 · Florida v. Royer · Delaware v. Prouse · Brown v. Texas · United States v. Pope
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] completely innocent person may wish to avoid the delay which a discussion with police may entail; others have a fear of police authority; still others resent and seek to avoid the `hassle' of a stop which lacks any basis.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] police officer is constitutionally justified in stopping a vehicle if the stop is `incident to a traffic violation committed in the officer's presence.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he majority of jurisdictions which have addressed the issue of flight have held that the mere act of avoiding confrontation does not create an articulable suspicion”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Tominiko · State v. Heapy
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.