84 Md. App. 243 - Snow v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 88 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 90 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably Ferris v. State (1999), Cartnail v. State (2000)
2 federal appellate · 88 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Terry v. Ohio · Carroll v. United States · Florida v. Royer · Griffin v. California
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 90 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the brevity of the invasion of the individual’s Fourth Amendment interests is an important factor in determining whether the seizure is so minimally intrusive as to be justifiable on reasonable suspicion. Moreover, in assessing the effect of the length of the detention, we take into account whether the police diligently pursue their investigation.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“THE COURT: Well I, I’ve already said that the detention was very limited in this case. It was bang, bang, within moments from the time the officer told him to go into the grass until the officer alerted, [sic] until the dog alerted. The officer certainly had a right to detain him up to that point____ [DEFENSE COUNSEL]: Judge, just for the record, this is the weakest, weakest probable cause I think I’ve ever seen. Just like the one we had before where [Officer] Paros said, “Yes, any person in Cecil County went and said he had to go to the bathroom with a station 3 miles behind and had tinted windows, that’s enough for me to lock him up.” And that’s what the citizens of Cecil County face, Judge. THE COURT: They carry drugs, they’ve got to. [DEFENSE COUNSEL]: I’m talking about those that don’t carry drugs. THE COURT: The ones that don’t carry drugs, they shouldn’t be subjected to anything. All right. We think these words and the potential for abuse speak for themselves.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[t]he Court of Appeals ... stated that Michigan v. Chesternut, 486 U.S. 567, 573 , 108 S.Ct. 1975, 1979 , 100 L.Ed.2d 565 (1988), “declares that the test to be applied in determining whether a person has been ‘seized’ within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment is whether in view of all the circumstances surrounding the incident, a reasonable person would have believed that he was not free to leave.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ferris v. State
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.