33 Wash. App. 345 - State v. Platz’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently April 2021
16 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2518 (Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986)
Relies on United States v. Lovasco · Beck v. Washington · 88 Wash. 2d 221 - State v. Wanrow · United States v. Martin · United States v. Martinez
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Evidence of other crimes, wrongs, or acts is not admissible to prove the character of a person in order to show that he acted in conformity therewith. It may, however, be admissible for other purposes, such as proof of motive, opportunity, intent, preparation, plan, knowledge, identity, or absence of mistake or accident.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“something less than a showing of absolute necessity to record to acquire or preserve evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Constance
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.