53 Wash. App. 654 - State v. Stortroen’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently July 2001
1 federal appellate · 17 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Terry v. Ohio · Wong Sun v. United States · Nardone v. United States · United States v. Crews
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In order to justify a warrantless inventory search, the State must demonstrate a lawful impound and that the inventory was not a mere pretext for an investigatory search.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Johnston“is permissible if there are reasonable grounds to believe the defendant will disregard the written promise to appear pursuant to the citation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[w]here a custodial arrest is not justified, no warrantless search pursuant to that arrest may be upheld”
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.