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State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis

2013

Citation profile

11
cited by 11 later decisions
1
states following
February 2025
most recently cited

11 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Blockburger v. United States · Murray v. United States · United States v. Ceccolini · State v. Hendrickson · 125 Wash. 2d 337 - Mt. Park Homeowners Ass'n, Inc. v. Tydings

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

  1. “the emergency exception to the warrant requirement, also known as the 'save life' exception, a subset of the community caretaking exception to the warrant requirement.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
  2. “normally applies to police encounters involving emergency aid and routine checks on health and safety.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
  3. “[n]o person shall be disturbed in his private affairs, or his home invaded, without authority of law.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent

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.