97 Wash. 2d 562 - State v. Loewen’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 90 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 95 later decisions — most recently April 2018 · most notably 109 Wash. 2d 107 - Haberman v. Washington Public Power Supply System (1988), State v. Ladson (1999)
2 federal appellate · 90 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 · Wong Sun v. United States · Katz v. United States · Mapp v. Ohio · Chimel v. 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 95 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“actually motivated by a perceived need to render aid or assistance.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“First, the search is invalid unless the searching officer is actually motivated by a perceived need to render aid or assistance. Second, even though the requisite motivation is found to exist, until it can be found that a reasonable person under the circumstances would have thought an emergency existed, the search is invalid.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“To approve the use of evidence of some offense unrelated to weapons would be to invite the use of weapons[] searches as a pretext for unwarranted searches, and thus to severely erode the protection of the Fourth Amendment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Garvin
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.