85 Wash. App. 568 - State v. Richman’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently April 2012 · most notably State v. Winterstein (2009), State v. Catlett (1997)
39 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 Terry v. Ohio · Nix v. Williams · 106 Wash. 2d 54 - State v. Gunwall · 125 Wash. 2d 24 - State v. Russell · State v. Hendrickson
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“permits admission of illegally obtained evidence if the State can prove that the police did not act unreasonably or attempt to accelerate discovery, and would have inevitably discovered the evidence through proper and predictable investigatory procedures.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Thompson · State v. Webb“only when the State can prove that the evidence would have been inevitably discovered under proper and predictable investigatory procedures.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Thompson · State v. Reyes“no principled difference between the inevitable discovery rule and the independent source doctrine.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Spring · State v. Reyes
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.