13 Wash. App. 863 - State v. Compton’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently July 2014 · most notably 305 Pa. Super. 386 - Commonwealth v. Trenge (1982), 224 Wis. 2d 201 - State v. Secrist (1999)
29 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 128 Ill. App. 2d 126 - People v. Erb · 11 Ill. App. 3d 414 - People v. Laird · 15 Ill. App. 3d 374 - People v. Wolf · In Re SEB · 19 Or. App. 401 - State v. Downes
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The difficulty lies in securing a search warrant for a stopped motor vehicle with the risk that if a search is delayed the evidence could be disposed of by the accused.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Miller v. State“him sufficient information to form a reasonable belief that the crime of unlawful possession of a controlled substance was being committed in his presence”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Mathews“... as to whether the smell of marijuana alone is sufficient to constitute probable cause for a search, there is case authority from other states.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Miller v. State
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.