95 Wash. 2d 143 - State v. Houser’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 192 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 197 later decisions — most recently August 2021 · most notably State v. Hendrickson (1996), 106 Wash. 2d 144 - State v. Stroud (1986)
5 federal appellate · 192 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 Carroll v. United States · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Chambers v. Maroney · South Dakota v. Opperman · Sedillo 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 197 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`jealously and carefully drawn' exceptions”
27 later decisions quote this exact passage“Local police officers, unlike federal officers, frequently investigate vehicle accidents in which there is no claim of criminal liability and engage in what, for want of a better term, may be described as community caretaking functions, totally divorced from the detection, investigation, or acquisition of evidence relating to the violation of a criminal statute.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Schroeder · State v. Kinzy“a general exploratory search for the purpose of finding evidence of a crime.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Roberts · State v. White
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.