53 Wash. App. 543 - State v. Downey’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently April 2016 · most notably 71 Wash. App. 267 - State v. Gocken (1993), 54 Wash. App. 18 - State v. Lynd (1989)
27 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 Katz v. United States · United States v. Echegoyen · 100 Wash. 2d 814 - State v. Chrisman · 42 Cal. 3d 91 - People v. Duncan · Boston Firefighters Union Local 718 v. Boston Chapter Naacp Inc Boston Police Patrolmen's Association Inc
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“those circumstances that would cause a reasonable person to believe that entry . . . was necessary to prevent physical harm to the officers and other persons, the destruction of relevant evidence, the escape of the suspects or some other consequence improperly frustrating legitimate law enforcement officers.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Leffler · State v. Leffler“[W]hen premises contain persons in imminent danger of death or harm; objects likely to burn, explode or otherwise cause harm; or information that will disclose the location of a threatened victim or the existence of such a threat, police may search those premises without first obtaining a warrant.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. White · State v. Thompson“actually motivated by a perceived need to render aid or assistance.”
2 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.