85 Wash. 2d 585 - Steele v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently November 2018
23 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 Silverthorne Lumber Co. v. United States · Camara v. Municipal Court of City and County of San Francisco · See v. City of Seattle · Edwin Hale v. William Henkel · United States v. Morton Salt Co.
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Therefore, by application of the three-prong test ... we are convinced that the instance [CID] did not violate the prohibitions of the Fourth Amendment. Situations could, of course, arise where the Attorney General arbitrarily serves a [CID] upon a business. ... But the record in the instant case discloses that the Attorney General did not act arbitrarily in instituting the investigation. On the contrary, the record discloses that an adequate foundation for the investigation existed since the Attorney General had received various complaints with respect to the operation of the employment agency.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“services rendered to applicants for employment; the manner of payment agreed upon by the applicant and respondent; training materials and manuals supplied by the franchisor to the respondent; applications for employment that had been placed in the inactive file in the past year; refunds to applicants or fee adjustments; certain pleadings filed in courts of record of this State in which respondent was a party; certain contracts between respondent and lending or financial institutions; and certain advertisements for employment placed by the agency in local newspapers.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[W]e start with the well-established proposition that although corporations and businesses are protected by the Fourth Amendment, ... the privacy of their books and records is not as stringently protected as is that of the privacy of individuals. Indeed, both in England and in the United States, corporations and businesses historically have been subject to wide investigative powers.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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