127 Wash. 2d 460 - State v. Mierz’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
114 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 119 later decisions — most recently June 2020 · most notably State v. Hendrickson (1996), State v. Hendrickson (1996)
114 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 Strickland v. Washington · Wong Sun v. United States · Katz v. United States · Marshall v. Barlow's, Inc. · United States v. Dunn
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 119 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Any benefit provided by exclusion of evidence in these cases comes at too high a price. Given the complexity and nuance of Fourth Amendment law, in many cases the law enforcement officer and the citizen may both have sincere or reasonable beliefs about the lawfulness of the entry or arrest. Encouraging citizens to test their beliefs through force simply returns us to a system of trial by combat. The proper location for dealing with such issues in a civilized society is in a court of law.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“`failure to move to suppress evidence he contends was illegally gathered constitutes a waiver of any error associated with the admission of the evidence and the trial court properly considered the evidence.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Millan · State v. Harris“`respond with unlimited force and, under the exclusionary rule, ... be effectively immunized from criminal responsibility.'”
2 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.