State v. Wheaton’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently November 2024
21 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 Illinois v. Gates · Aguilar v. Texas · Spinelli v. United States · New York v. Belton · 106 Wash. 2d 54 - State v. Gunwall
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“some guidance ... on how one might fully develop an independent state constitutional claim.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Follinus
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.