86 Wash. 2d 91 - State v. Helmka’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
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
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.
“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“[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“[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.