9 Wash. App. 741 - State v. Chatmon’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
59 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently September 2007 · most notably 119 Wash. 2d 192 - State v. Salinas (1992), 107 Wash. 2d 1 - State v. Kennedy (1986)
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 Terry v. Ohio · Aguilar v. Texas · Spinelli v. United States · Adams v. Williams · Chambers v. Maroney
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.
“corroborated by description of him, his purpose for being at the locus of the crime, and the reason for his desire to remain anonymous.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“Where eyewitnesses to crime summon the police, and the exigencies are such (as in the case of violent crime and the imminent possibility of escape) that ascertainment of the identity and background of the informants would be unreasonable, the "reliability" requirement might be further relaxed.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“Aguilar’s second prong — the necessary demonstration of some indicia of the informant’s reliability. . . . [I]t is axiomatic under the Aguilar-Spinelli rule that the police must ascertain some information which would reasonably support an inference that the informant is telling the truth.”
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.