43 Wash. App. 455 - State v. Portnoy’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently March 2021 · most notably 115 Wash. 2d 275 - State v. Handley (1990), State v. Collins (2002)
37 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 Chapman v. State of California · Delaware v. Van Arsdall · Davis v. Alaska · Enmund v. Florida · Babich v. United States
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is true that a bail bondsman has certain extraordinary powers under the common law, as a result of the contract with his client. See Taylor v. Taintor, 83 U.S. (16 Wall.) 366 , 21 L.Ed. 287 (187[2]). However; Portnoy offers no authority for the proposition that the bondsmen may sweep from his path all third parties who he thinks are blocking his search for his client, without liability to the criminal law.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“a bail bondsman has certain extraordinary powers under the common law”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lopez v. Ol McCotter
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.