State v. Lopez’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 70 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 81 later decisions — most recently January 2026 · most notably United States v. Botero-Ospina (1995), State v. Johnson (2017)
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 70 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
Applies 19 U.S.C. § 1581 (Tariff Act of 1930)
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Florida v. Royer · Delaware v. Prouse · South Dakota v. Opperman · United States v. Sharpe
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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] police officer is constitutionally justified in stopping a vehicle if the stop is incident to a traffic violation committed in the officers' presence.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage“reasonably related in seope to the circumstances that justified the interference in the first place.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage“). As we stated in Lopez : [A]n officer conducting a routine traffic stop may request a driver's license and vehicle registration, conduct a computer check, and issue a citation. However, once the driver has produced a valid driver's license and evidence of entitlement to use the vehicle,”
9 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Matison · State v. Harmon
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.