73 Wash. 2d 381 - State v. Montague’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 83 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 88 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2020 · most notably South Dakota v. Opperman (1976), State v. Ladson (1999)
3 federal appellate · 83 state decisions — followed in 18 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 United States v. Rabinowitz · Harris v. United States · Cooper v. State of California · Cotton v. United States · 60 Wash. 2d 638 - State v. Michaels
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 88 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[N]either would this court have any hesitancy in suppressing evidence of crime found during the taking of the inventory, if we found that either the arrest or the impoundment of the vehicle was resorted to as a device and pretext for making a general exploratory search of the car without a search warrant.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Roberts · State v. Villela
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.