People v. Melton’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently May 2025
24 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 · Florida v. Royer · United States v. Mendenhall · Boyd v. United States · Florida v. Bostick
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'The inherent social pressure to cooperate with the police does not elevate every police-citizen encounter into a sei-zare.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“). Similarly, however, a consensual encounter does not become an investigatory stop because the police do not inform the individual that he or she is free to leave. See Delgado, 466 U.S. at 216 , 104 S.Ct. at 1762 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“impermissibly intrudes upon an individual's personal security or privacy.”
2 later decisions 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.