68 Wash. App. 802 - State v. Flora’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2019 · most notably Devenpeck v. Alford (2004), State v. Clark (2007)
8 federal appellate · 19 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 · Patterson v. United States · 88 Wash. 2d 221 - State v. Wanrow · 114 Wash. 2d 828 - State v. Fjermestad · 113 Wash. 2d 346 - Central Washington Bank v. Mendelson-Zeller, 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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, it shall be unlawful for any individual, partnership, corporation, association, or the state of Washington, its agencies, and political subdivisions to intercept, or record any: (b) Private conversation, by any device electronic or otherwise designed to record or transmit such conversation regardless how the device is powered or actuated without first obtaining the consent of all the persons engaged in the conversation.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“... Washington courts have on several occasions construed the term ["private"] to mean: secret ... intended only for the persons involved (a conversation) ... holding a confidential relationship to something... a secret message: a private communication... secretly; not open or in public.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Mankin · State v. Mankin“transform[ed] ... into a sword available for use against individuals by public officers acting in their official capacity.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Mankin · Johnson v. Hawe
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.