102 Wash. 2d 733 - State v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 176 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 186 later decisions — most recently January 2025 · most notably 106 Wash. 2d 144 - State v. Stroud (1986), 107 Wash. 2d 1 - State v. Kennedy (1986)
10 federal appellate · 176 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 · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Florida v. Royer · United States v. Cortez · Adams v. Williams
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 186 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]n justifying the particular intrusion the police officer must be able to point to specific and articulable facts which, taken together with rational inferences from those facts, reasonably warrant that intrusion.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“`a few jealously and carefully drawn exceptions' to the warrant requirement.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Duncan · State v. Villela“the purpose of the stop, the amount of physical intrusion upon the suspect's liberty, and the length of time the suspect is detained.”
6 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.