State v. Humphrey’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently April 2019
12 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 · Delaware v. Prouse · United States v. Ventresca · Alabama v. White
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[ Wle 'look to the totality of the cireumstances ... to determine if there was an objective basis for suspecting criminal activity'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]o determine whether a search or seizure is constitutionally reasonable, we make a dual inquiry: (1) Was the police officer's action `justified at its inception'? and (2) Was the resulting detention `reasonably related in scope to the circumstances that justified the interference in the first place?'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Under the Fourth Amendment, a police officer is justified in stopping a vehicle when the officer observes the driver commit a traffic violation, or when the officer has a reasonable articulable suspicion that the driver committed or is about to commit a crime, such as transporting drugs.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.