33 Wash. App. 507 - State v. Harper’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently June 2011
12 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Terry v. Ohio · Brown v. Texas · 60 Wash. 2d 638 - State v. Michaels · Wilson v. Gray
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Terry , at 27. Further, a person's demeanor and his actions during police questioning may provide a sufficient basis for an officer to believe the person is armed and dangerous. Harper , at 511. In Harper , the defendant had repeatedly thrust his hands into his coat pockets while an officer questioned him about his activities earlier that night. Harper , at 509. The officer's subsequent search was justified, even though the defendant had contraband rather than a weapon in his pocket. Harper , at 511. According to Officer Leufroy's testimony during the suppression hearing, Hall became”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.