91 Wash. App. 476 - State v. Thein’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 state decisions

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

1. ““[T]hat nexus may be established either through direct observation or through normal inferences as to where the articles sought would be located.” For that reason, a “warrant may be upheld when the nexus between the items to be seized and the place to be searched rests not upon direct observation, but on the type of crime, nature of the items, and normal inferences [about] where a criminal would likely hide contraband.” . . . But the general observations must be based on some specific facts which support an inference that the particular individual is involved in drug dealing and evidence of that activity is likely to be found at the place to be searched.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 96 Wash. App. 619 - State v. Klinger

2. “would be found at the other place Thein controlled — his home.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Thein

3. “the only other place anyone knew it could be....”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Thein