5 Wash. App. 644 - State v. Cagle’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently January 1996
14 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 Carroll v. United States · Chambers v. Maroney · Harris v. United States · Sostre v. McGinnis · 76 Wash. 2d 331 - State v. Regan
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“align[ed] ourselves with the almost universal view, that [the] use of a flashlight is not a search at all. When the circumstances of a particular case are such that the police officer's observation would not have constituted a search had it occurred in daylight, then the fact that the officer used a flashlight to pierce the nighttime darkness does not transform his observation into a search.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he mere use of a flashlight, however, does not magically transmute a non-accusatory visual encounter into a Fourth Amendment search”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Due to an automobile's mobility, what may be an unreasonable search of a house may be a reasonable search of an automobile.”
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.