93 Wash. 2d 170 - State v. Allen’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently September 2019 · most notably State v. Parker (2001), 124 Wash. 2d 107 - State v. Hudson (1994)
32 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 · Jones v. United States · Ybarra v. Illinois · United States v. Thompson
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Assuming the legality of the frisk, the discovery of an unidentified "bulge" in the course of the patdown would entitle the officer to assure himself that it was not a weapon. After satisfying himself the "bulge" was not a weapon, the officer had no valid reason to further invade Allen's right to be free of. police intrusion absent reasonable cause to arrest. See United States v. Thompson, 597 F.2d 187 (9th Cir. 1979). . . . [Ojnce it is ascertained that no weapon is involved, the government's limited authority to invade the individual's right to be free of police intrusion is spent. Terry v. Ohio, supra.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Absent probable cause to arrest, once it is ascertained that no weapon is involved, the government's limited authority to invade the individual's right to be free of police intrusion is spent. Thereafter, further intrusion becomes a search for evidence which the police may not do without a warrant, except as an incident to a lawful arrest, or with the consent of the person concerned.”
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.