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← 11 Wash. App. 311 - State v. Johnson

11 Wash. App. 311 - State v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis

1974

Citation profile

12
cited by 12 later decisions
1
states following
September 1981
most recently cited

12 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Mapp v. Ohio · Ker v. State of California · 76 Wash. 2d 212 - State v. Young · 7 Wash. App. 414 - State v. Miller · 3 Wash. App. 441 - State v. Hatcher

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.

  1. “[T]he Fourth Amendment, at the minimum, requires that the officers have reasonable cause to believe that, in carrying out their duty to arrest, their safety would be endangered, i.e., the question is "whether a reasonably prudent man in the circumstances would be warranted in the belief that his safety or that of others was in danger."”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “The principle that officers are entitled to take action to protect themselves must necessarily be tempered, however, by a respect for the personal security and privacy of individuals which is secured by the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments.”
    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.