State v. Foster’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently March 2020
1 federal appellate · 10 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 Terry v. Ohio · United States v. Cortez · Dunaway v. New York · Michigan v. Summers · In Re John N.
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.
“The right of the people to be secure in their persons * * * against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause * * *.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Flores“A police officer has `seized' a person, within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment, when he [or she] restrains that person's freedom to walk away.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Flores“even if briefly, the Fourth Amendment is implicated and the detention must be in conformance with the strictures of that amendment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Flores
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.