88 Wash. 2d 221 - State v. Wanrow’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 249 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 257 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2022 · most notably Ellison v. Brady (1991), State v. Brown (1997)
5 federal appellate · 249 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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 Mapp v. Ohio · Reed v. Reed · Frontiero v. Richardson · Michigan v. Tucker · 44 Cal. 2d 434 - People v. Cahan
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 257 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in no way affected the final outcome of the case.”
29 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, it shall be unlawful for ... the state of Washington, its agencies, and political subdivisions to intercept, or record any: . . .”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“the jury was misled as to its function and responsibilities under the law”
4 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.