100 Wash. 2d 686 - State v. Ringer’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 127 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 130 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably 106 Wash. 2d 54 - State v. Gunwall (1986), 119 Wash. 2d 192 - State v. Salinas (1992)
3 federal appellate · 127 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 Carroll v. United States · Chimel v. California · United States v. Ross · Weeks v. United States · New York v. Belton
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 130 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] warrantless search ... is permissible only to remove any weapons the arrestee might seek to use in order to resist arrest or effect an escape and to avoid destruction of evidence by the arrestee of the crime for which he or she is arrested.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“No person shall be disturbed in his private affairs, or his home invaded, without authority of law.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“`an almost absolute bar to warrantless arrests, searches, and seizures.'”
5 later decisions 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.