95 Wash. 2d 43 - State v. Sieler’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2025 · most notably Maumee v. Weisner (1999), 107 Wash. 2d 1 - State v. Kennedy (1986)
58 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 · Adams v. Williams · Brown v. Texas · United States v. Di Re · United States v. Crews
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a well founded suspicion based on objective facts that he is connected to actual or potential criminal activity.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a]n informant's tip cannot constitutionally provide police with such a suspicion unless it possesses sufficient `indicia of reliability.'”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“"It is difficult to conceive of a tip more `completely lacking in indicia of reliability' than one provided by a completely anonymous and unidentifiable informer, containing no more than a conclusionary assertion that a certain individual is engaged in criminal activity. While the police may have a duty to investigate tips which sound reasonable, [1] absent circumstances suggesting the informant's reliability, or some corroborative observation which suggests either [2] the presence of criminal activity or [3] that the informer's information was obtained in a reliable fashion, a forcible stop based solely upon such information is not permissible."”
5 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.