72 Wash. 2d 264 - State v. Bellows’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently November 2010 · most notably 105 Wash. 2d 632 - State v. Terrovona (1986), 113 Wash. 2d 735 - State v. Leach (1989)
36 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 Brinegar v. United States · 65 Wash. 2d 530 - In RE McNEAR v. Rhay · 70 Wash. 2d 955 - State v. Green · 68 Wash. 2d 88 - State v. Massey · United States v. Goodman
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“reasonable grounds for suspicion coupled with evidence of circumstances to convince a cautious or disinterested person that the accused is guilty.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“Where two persons have equal right to the use or occupancy of the premises, either one can authorize a search.”
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.