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86 Wash. 2d 91 - State v. Helmka’s Empirical Analysis

1975

Citation profile

59
cited by 59 later decisions
4
states following
August 2019
most recently cited

59 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably 95 Wash. 2d 898 - State v. Seagull (1981), 167 W. Va. 540 - State v. Peacher (1981)

59 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 Coolidge v. New Hampshire · United States v. Ventresca · Sedillo v. United States · 83 Wash. 2d 49 - State v. Patterson · Irby 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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “the facts stated, the inferences to be drawn, and the specificity required must fall within the ambit of reasonableness.”
    5 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “[i]n determining whether probable cause exists, a magistrate is entitled to draw reasonable inferences from the facts and circumstances set forth in the affidavit,”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage
  3. “[i]t seems reasonable to infer that persons who grow illegal marijuana plants do so for a purpose other than the pursuit of an interest in horticulture”
    2 later decisions 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.