People v. Holmes’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently March 2018
7 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.
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“many areas of New York City, at one time or another, have probably been described by the police as 'high crime neighborhoods' or 'narcotics-prone locations' .... If these circumstances could combine with flight to justify pursuit, then in essence the right to inquire would be tantamount to the right to seize, and there would, in fact, be no right 'to be let alone'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. People v. Perez“a bulge in the pocket, unlike a waistband bulge, could be caused by any number of innocuous objects. Moreover, the officer conceded that [they] could not have possibly known from ** the location and character of the bulge that the defendant was carrying a weapon”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. People v. Perez“insufficient to justify pursuit because an individual has a right 'to be let alone' and refuse to respond to police inquiry”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. People v. Perez
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.