State v. Townsend’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 123 Wash. 2d 173 - State v. Young · 116 Wash. 2d 794 - Cherry v. Municipality of Metropolitan Seattle · Tsutakawa v. Kumamoto · 4 Wash. 2d 498 - Shelton Hotel Co., Inc. v. Bates · State v. Faford
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that the state may invade our privacy, a possibility that this majority opinion makes more probable, is hardly a legal justification for the unlawful practice to continue nor adequate grounds to conclude one has”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Townsend“by any device electronic or otherwise designed to record and/or transmit said communication.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Christensen“to the very invasion which the statute is designed to prohibit.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Townsend
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.