State v. Wisdom’s Empirical Analysis
2015
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
2
states following
April 2023
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on South Dakota v. Opperman · United States v. Chadwick · Arkansas v. Sanders · California v. Acevedo · 102 Wash. 2d 506 - State v. Myrick
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t defeats the very puipose of an inventory search—to list and secure property, as well as protecting law enforcement from false claims— to make the police ignore a valuable item in plain sight and act without knowledge of what was in their possession.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“But, even if there [were] standing, the officer could look through an unlocked [container] left on the front seat of the stolen truck.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“police have the right during an inventory to check the entire contents of a bag when valuable property is visible.”
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.