60 Wash. 2d 638 - State v. Michaels’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 104 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 112 later decisions — most recently September 2019 · most notably 97 Wash. 2d 92 - State v. White (1982), 106 Wash. 2d 144 - State v. Stroud (1986)
6 federal appellate · 104 state decisions — followed in 11 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 Jones v. United States · Harris v. United States · United States v. Lefkowitz · Amos v. United States · State v. Gibbons
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 112 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an officer may take into custody a person who commits a misdemeanor in his presence, and upon making the arrest, may search the person and his immediate environs for evidence of the crime or tools which would aid in the arrested person's escape.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“An arrest may not be used as a pretext to search for evidence.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Ladson · State v. Hatchie“The evidence in this case conclusively shows that the arrest was made for the sole purpose of searching the automobile to ascertain whether it contained any contraband property. It was a mere pretext for the search and was therefore unlawful.”
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.