95 Wash. 2d 898 - State v. Seagull’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
2 district · 217 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 226 later decisions — most recently March 2022 · most notably 123 Wash. 2d 173 - State v. Young (1994), 107 Wash. 2d 1 - State v. Kennedy (1986)
2 district · 217 state decisions — followed in 13 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
Relies on Katz v. United States · Franks v. Delaware · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Jones v. United States · Ker v. State of California
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 226 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t is clear that police with legitimate business may enter areas of the curtilage which are impliedly open, such as access routes to the house.”
20 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he object under observation is not subject to any reasonable expectation of privacy and the observation is not within the scope of the constitution.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage“`As a general proposition, it is fair to say that when a law enforcement officer is able to detect something by utilization of one or more of his senses while lawfully present at the vantage point where those senses are used, that detection does not constitute a”
9 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.