United States v. Quinn’s Empirical Analysis
83 F.3d 917 · 1996
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently September 2023 · most notably United States v. Jackson (2002), United States v. Ienco (1999)
27 federal appellate · 4 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Illinois Northern District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Bagley · United States v. Cortez · United States v. Sokolow
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in determining whether a particular police-citizen encounter was supported by reasonable suspicion, courts must consider the totality of circumstances known to the officer at the time of the stop.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“courts may consider the defendant's presence in a high crime area as part of the totality of circumstances confronting the officer at the time of the stop.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“some minimal level of objective justification for making a stop.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.