5 Wash. App. 334 - Eddy v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2004 · most notably Paul v. Davis (1976), Sullivan v. Murphy (1973)
15 federal appellate · 36 state decisions — followed in 15 states
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 · Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · Griswold v. State of Connecticut · Boyd v. United States · Shapiro v. Thompson
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We believe the right of an individual, absent a compelling showing of necessity by the government, to the return of his fingerprints and photographs, upon an acquittal, is a fundamental right implicit in the concept of ordered liberty and that it is as well within the penumbras of the specific guarantees of the Bill of Rights ‘formed by emanations from those guarantees that help give them life and substance.’ Griswold v. Connecticut, 381 U. S. 479, 484 , 85 S.Ct. 1678 , 14 L.Ed.2d 510 (1965). “It will take a compelling showing on the part of the state to justify a retention of the fingerprints and photographs. . . 487 P. 2d at 217 , 503 P. 2d at 161 .”
4 later decisions 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.