77 Wash. App. 441 - State v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis

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12 state decisions

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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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"[W]hen a home is located in a vehicle, in such a way as to make it readily accessible from the passenger compartment, the safety of law enforcement officers and the need for a bright-line rule militate against prohibiting officers from searching a sleeping area which is readily accessible from the passenger compartment." Id. at 449, 909 P.2d 293 (quoting State v. Johnson, 77 Wash.App. 441, 447 , 892 P.2d 106 (1995)).”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Vrieling · State v. Vrieling

2. “as including all space reachable without exiting the vehicle. ...” 3 Wayne R. Lafave, Search and Seizure § 7.1(c), at 16 (2d ed. 1987) (emphasis in original); see Johnson, 77 Wn. App. at 444-45 . Federal cases are consistent with this rule, holding that the term”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 80 Wash. App. 184 - State v. Mitzlaff · State v. Johnson

3. “'search incident to arrest’ rationale.” Br. of Resp’t at 9. However, as the court said in Boyce , the area within the arrestee’s immediate control includes the passenger compartment of a vehicle, because the area generally, though not inevitably, is one from which the arrestee could grab a weapon or other evidence. Boyce , 52 Wn. App. at 277. To find that folding down seats in a vehicle converts the space from a passenger area to”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 79 Wash. App. 355 - State v. Davis