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73 Wash. 2d 596 - State v. Rothenberger’s Empirical Analysis

1968

Citation profile

34
cited by 34 later decisions
9
states following
February 2019
most recently cited

34 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably 114 Wash. 2d 828 - State v. Fjermestad (1990), 114 Wash. 2d 304 - State v. Mennegar (1990)

34 state decisions

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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 Nardone v. United States · Joseph N. D'Argento and James A. Caparusso 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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “Gentlemen, be on your way. I am sorry to have unlawfully detained you.”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “if any, which had inhered in the original unlawful arrest was so greatly attenuated by the time and circumstances intervening, when the appellants went to trial for the Seattle burglary, that it had lost its potency, if it ever had any. (Italics mine.) State v. Rothenberger, supra at 601 . I would hold that no”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “Sophisticated argument may prove a causal connection between information obtained through illicit wire-tapping and the Government's proof. As a matter of good sense, however, such connection may have become so attenuated as to dissipate the taint.”
    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.