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91 Wash. App. 195 - State v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis

1998

Citation profile

34
cited by 34 later decisions
7
states following
May 2014
most recently cited

34 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Mapp v. Ohio · United States v. Mendenhall · Bibby v. United States · Segura v. United States · Thompson v. Keohane

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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[o]nce an officer retains the No. 13AP-555 10 suspect's identification or driver's license and takes it with him to conduct a warrants check, a seizure within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment has occurred”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “Evidence that is the product of an unlawful search or seizure is not admissible”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “is at least the `but for' cause of the discovery of the evidence.”
    1 later decision 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.