State v. Thein’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably State v. Jackson (2003), State v. Thein (1999)
38 state decisions — followed in 10 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 United States v. Ramos · United States v. Angulo-Lopez · United States v. Terry · 102 Wash. 2d 432 - State v. Jackson · 95 Wash. 2d 898 - State v. Seagull
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“facts and circumstances sufficient to establish a reasonable inference that the defendant is probably involved in criminal activity and that evidence of the crime can be found at the place to be searched.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“a nexus between criminal activity and the item to be seized, and also a nexus between the item to be seized and the place to be searched.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Nordlund · State v. Merkt“[b]lanket inferences of this kind substitute generalities for the required showing of reasonably specific `underlying circumstances'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Bouch v. State · State v. Thein
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.