7 Wash. App. 631 - State v. Clay’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently February 2011 · most notably 88 Wash. 2d 899 - State v. Partin (1977), 96 Wash. 2d 962 - State v. Fisher (1982)
37 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 Carroll v. United States · Aguilar v. Texas · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Spinelli v. United States · Jones v. United States
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The support for issuance of a search warrant is sufficient if, on reading the affidavits, an ordinary person would understand that a violation existed and was continuing at the time of the application.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he Fourth Amendment's commands, like all constitutional requirements, are practical and not abstract. If the teachings of the Court's cases are to be followed and the constitutional policy served, affidavits for search warrants, such as the one involved here, must be tested and interpreted by magistrates and courts in a commonsense and realistic fashion. They are normally drafted by nonlawyers in the midst and haste of a criminal investigation. Technical requirements of elaborate specificity once exacted under common law pleadings have no proper place in this area. A grudging or negative attitude by reviewing courts toward warrants will tend to discourage police officers from submitting their evidence to a judicial officer before acting.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The requirements of Aguilar v. Texas, supra, are the requirements reiterated in State v. Walcott, 72 Wn.2d 959 , 435 P. 2d 994 (1967), requiring (1) full disclosure to the magistrate of the underlying circumstances justifying issuance of the warrant and (2) justification of the credibility of the informant or the reliability of his information.”
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.