28 Wash. App. 412 - State v. Young’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently February 2011 · most notably 102 Wash. 2d 733 - State v. Williams (1984), 104 Wash. 2d 497 - State v. Smith (1985)
32 state decisions
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 Terry v. Ohio · Katz v. United States · United States v. Mendenhall · Adams v. Williams · Delaware v. Prouse
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“align[ed] ourselves with the almost universal view, that [the] use of a flashlight is not a search at all. When the circumstances of a particular case are such that the police officer's observation would not have constituted a search had it occurred in daylight, then the fact that the officer used a flashlight to pierce the nighttime darkness does not transform his observation into a search.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A] person has a diminished expectation of privacy in the visible contents of an automobile parked in a public place.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“doctrine applies, and merely looking through the vehicle's windows at the drain cleaners and bag of ammonia sulfate did not constitute a search. Like in Young , we hold that Gibson had a diminished expectation of privacy of the observable contents of his vehicle. ¶ 25 But to justify the warrantless seizure, the deputies must have had probable cause to believe that the contents of Gibson's vehicle were evidence of a crime and must have been faced with”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Gibson
How this case has been treated — in progress
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