124 Wash. 2d 107 - State v. Hudson’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
75 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions — most recently March 2022 · most notably State v. Parker (2001), State v. Womac (2007)
75 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 · Mapp v. Ohio · Adams v. Williams · Dunaway v. New York · Horton v. California
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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`If the officer feels an item of questionable identity that has the size and density such that it might or might not be a weapon, the officer may only take such action as is necessary to examine such object.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Acrey · State v. Acrey“in the right jacket pocket, which the officer thought might be a weapon. Id. (quoting videotape recorded proceedings at 50-51). The detective reached into the pocket, felt the item, and instantly recognized it as a pager. The officer also felt paperwork and a baggie containing a”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Garvin“Where an officer lawfully pats down a defendant... and feels an object possessing characteristics that make its identity as contraband immediately apparent, ... there has been no invasion of the Defendant's privacy beyond the search for weapons.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Garvin
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.