27 Wash. App. 589 - State v. Melin’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
March 2001
most recently cited
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Katz v. United States · Ybarra v. Illinois · 94 Wash. 2d 263 - State v. Daugherty · 7 Wash. App. 668 - State v. Howard · 22 Wash. App. 730 - State v. Orcutt
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.
“is not a license to detain and frisk all persons approaching within 100 feet of the location of [a] search in the absence of an articulable reason to believe the individuals have committed a crime.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Crane
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.