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← 160 WASH2D 65 - State v. Surge

State v. Surge’s Empirical Analysis

2007

Citation profile

8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
April 2011
most recently cited

8 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Schmerber v. State of California · Skinner v. Railway Labor Executives' Assn. · California v. Greenwood · Crystal Fergusons v. City of Charleston · 123 Wash. 2d 173 - State v. Young

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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[n]o person shall be disturbed in his private affairs . . . without authority of law.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “focuses on those privacy interests which citizens of this state have held, and should be entitled to hold, safe from governmental trespass absent a warrant.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  3. “It is by now axiomatic that article I, section 7 provides greater protection to an individual's right of privacy than that guaranteed by the Fourth Amendment.”
    1 later decision 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.