93 Wash. 2d 838 - State v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably State v. Mendez (1999), 137 Wash. 2d 208 - State v. Mendez (1999)
36 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 · Brinegar v. United States · United States v. Brignoni-Ponce · Dunaway v. New York · Brown v. Texas
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“All seizures of the person, even those involving only brief detentions, must be tested against the Fourth Amendment guaranty of freedom from unreasonable searches and seizures.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“the risk of arbitrary and abusive police practices exceeds tolerable limits.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Crane · State v. Crane“mere proximity to others independently suspected of criminal activity does not justify the stop.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Doughty
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.