21 Wash. App. 30 - State v. Houser’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
2
states following
December 1980
most recently cited
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on South Dakota v. Opperman · United States v. Chadwick · 83 Wash. 2d 424 - State v. Gluck · 90 Wash. 2d 45 - State v. Hehman · 73 Wash. 2d 381 - State v. Montague
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he officer in his community caretaker capacity had a duty to determine ownership of the car. He was entitled to take custody of the car to prevent its disappearance until he could determine the proper person to whom to release it. See State v. Malbeck, 15 Wn. App. 871 , 552 P.2d 1092 (1976); State v. Bresolin, 13 Wn. App. 386 , 534 P.2d 1394 (1975).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[i]n the interests of public safety and as part of what the Court has called 'community caretaking functions,' . . . automobiles are frequently taken into police custody.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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