57 Wash. App. 549 - State v. Gross’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

16 state decisions

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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[A] warrant may be upheld when the nexus between the items to be seized and the place to be searched rests not upon direct observation, but on the type of crime, nature of the items, and normal inferences where a criminal would likely hide contraband.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 74 Wash. App. 820 - State v. O'NEIL · 96 Wash. App. 619 - State v. Klinger

2. “(1) drug trafficking is a much greater evil than drug use, increasing the governmental justification to search, and (2) if the homes of drug users could be searched as readily as the homes of drug traffickers, a much greater invasion of privacy would result.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 73 Wash. App. 132 - State v. Dalton

3. “suspicious” package destined for Wisconsin which was similar to a package they had found earlier that week containing controlled substances. The package was strongly scented and it was sealed at every seam with duct tape. The return address on the package”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 73 Wash. App. 132 - State v. Dalton