95 Wash. 2d 1 - State v. Coyle’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently January 2021 · most notably 99 Wash. 2d 413 - State v. Vladovic (1983), 110 Wash. 2d 577 - State v. Rice (1988)
57 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 Payton v. New York · Ker v. State of California · United States v. Di Re · Miller v. United States · Babich 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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To make an arrest in criminal actions, the officer may break open any outer or inner door, or windows of a dwelling house or other building, or any other inclosure, if, after notice of his office and purpose, he be refused admittance.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“announce their identity, demand admittance, announce the purpose of their demand, and be explicitly or implicitly denied admittance.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“confronted with some sort of contemporaneous sound or activity alerting them”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.