94 Wash. 2d 531 - State v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
2 district · 87 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 91 later decisions — most recently December 2023 · most notably State v. Brown (1997), Hisle v. Todd Pacific Shipyards Corp. (2004)
2 district · 87 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2510 (Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986) · 18 U.S.C. § 2511 (Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986) · 18 U.S.C. § 2516 (Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986)
Relies on Katz v. United States · Rakas v. Illinois · Alderman v. United States · Starnes v. Penrod Drilling Co. · Patterson v. United States
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 91 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“clearly evinces a congressional intent to preempt state law”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“that the two acts cannot 'be reconciled or consistently stand together' ...”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“the State of Washington, its agencies, and subdivisions,”
4 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.