State v. Woinarowicz’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently November 2025 · most notably State v. Daly (2009), State v. Rivera (2008)
48 state decisions — followed in 14 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 Crawford v. Washington · Chimel v. California · United States v. Matlock · Davis v. Washington · Pennsylvania v. Ritchie
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In reviewing a district court's decision on a motion to suppress evidence, we defer to the district court's findings of fact and resolve conflicts in testimony in favor of affirmance. We will affirm a district court's decision on a motion to suppress if there is sufficient competent evidence fairly capable of supporting the trial court's findings, and the decision is not contrary to the manifest weight of the evidence. Our standard of review recognizes the importance of the district court's opportunity to observe the witnesses and assess their credibility. Questions of law are fully reviewable on appeal, and whether a finding of fact meets a legal standard is a question of law.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'[t]o establish probable cause, the officer does not have to possess knowledge of facts sufficient to establish guilt; all that is necessary is knowledge that would furnish a prudent person with reasonable grounds for believing a violation has occurred.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Schmalz · State v. Terrill“' Probable cause does not require that commission of the offense be established with absolute certainty, or proved beyond a reasonable doubt.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Schmalz · State v. Terrill
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.