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94 Wash. App. 629 - State v. Boursaw’s Empirical Analysis

1999

Citation profile

12
cited by 12 later decisions
1
states following
April 2015
most recently cited

12 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Chimel v. California · New York v. Belton · United States v. Chadwick · 123 Wash. 2d 641 - State v. Hill · Folsom v. Burger King

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

  1. “[d]uring the arrest process, including the time immediately subsequent to the suspect’s being arrested, handcuffed, and placed in a patrol car, officers should be allowed to search the passenger compartment of a vehicle for weapons or destructible evidence. However, if the officers encounter a locked container or locked glove compartment, they may not unlock and search either container without obtaining a warrant.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “the area behind the ashtray is within the reach of the occupants of the automobile.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  3. “on what constitutes activities related to `the securing of the suspect and the scene,' and at what point is the scene sufficiently secured.”
    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.