97 Wash. 2d 92 - State v. White’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 298 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 304 later decisions — most recently October 2024 · most notably 106 Wash. 2d 54 - State v. Gunwall (1986), 119 Wash. 2d 192 - State v. Salinas (1992)
4 federal appellate · 298 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 · Mapp v. Ohio · Adams v. Williams · Delaware v. Prouse
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 304 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“whenever the right is unreasonably violated, the remedy must follow.”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“No person shall be disturbed in his private affairs, or his home invaded, without authority of law.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“Obstructing a public servant. Every person who, (1) without lawful excuse shall refuse or knowingly fail to make or furnish any statement, report, or information lawfully required of him by a public servant, or (2) in any such statement or report shall make any knowingly untrue statement to a public servant, or (3) shall knowingly hinder, delay, or obstruct any public servant in the discharge of his official powers or duties; shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.”
10 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.