40 Wash. App. 298 - State v. McPherson’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently August 2018
15 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 Aguilar v. Texas · Spinelli v. United States · 102 Wash. 2d 432 - State v. Jackson
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Such a sharp increase in electrical use in an ordinary residence is somewhat unusual but there are too many other plausible explanations for the increased energy use for that information to point to criminal activity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Merely verifying 'innocuous details', commonly known facts or easily predictable events should not suffice to remedy a deficiency in either the basis of knowledge or veracity prong.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“criminal activity, suspicious activity or any activity at all.”
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.