115 Wash. 2d 571 - State v. Boland’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
273 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 273 later decisions — most recently July 2025 · most notably 119 Wash. 2d 192 - State v. Salinas (1992), 123 Wash. 2d 173 - State v. Young (1994)
273 state decisions — followed in 20 states
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 Katz v. United States · Mapp v. Ohio · Hoffa v. United States · Smith v. Maryland · Zerman v. Melton
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 273 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[n]o person shall be disturbed in his private affairs, or his home invaded, without authority of law.”
21 later decisions quote this exact passage“those privacy interests which citizens of this state have held, and should be entitled to hold, safe from governmental trespass absent a warrant.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Parker · State v. Cheatam“(1) the textual language; (2) differences in the texts; (3) constitutional history; (4) preexisting state law; (5) structural differences; and (6) matters of particular state or local concern.”
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.