State v. Gocken

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that a warrantless search of an elderly woman's home to check on her health and well-being fell within the emergency aid community caretaking function
• once officers lawfully inside residence performing health and safety check, their discovery of evidence falls within the plain view exception to the warrant requirement
• inability to contact victim for several weeks coupled with victim’s advanced age and mental and physical affirmities justified warrantless entry
• even if improperly seized, photographs of a taped door “added very little to the State’s case” and “was inconsequential”
• call from a concerned friend

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

34 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• State v. Kinzy
  Washington Supreme Court· 2000-07-27· cited 140×
• Krysta Sutterfield v. City of Milwaukee
  Seventh Circuit· 2014-05-09· cited 124×
• State v. Horn
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2004-06-18· cited 59×
• State v. Sadler
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2008-10-14· cited 48×
• State v. Johnson
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2001-01-19· cited 34×
• State v. Mitchell
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2008-03-03· cited 33×
• State v. Leupp
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1999-07-09· cited 27×
• State v. Parris
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2011-08-09· cited 25×
• State v. Schlieker
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2003-01-31· cited 22×
• State v. Boisselle
  Washington Supreme Court· 2019-09-12· cited 21×
• State v. Angelos
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1997-05-05· cited 20×
• State v. Hagedorn
  Idaho Court of Appeals· 1996-07-25· cited 20×
• State v. Johnson
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2001-01-26· cited 19×
• State v. Davis
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1997-05-16· cited 18×
• State v. Link
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2007-01-17· cited 18×
• State v. Lawson
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2006-10-10· cited 15×
• State v. Leffler
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2007-12-18· cited 14×
• State v. Ibarra-Raya
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2008-07-01· cited 12×
• State Of Washington, V Michael C. Boisselle, Jr.
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2018-04-16· cited 10×
• State v. Gibson
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2001-01-19· cited 9×

Cites

18 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Rakas v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1979-01-15· cited 6,103×
• Cady v. Dombrowski
  Supreme Court· 1973-06-21· cited 2,465×
• Smith v. Maryland
  Supreme Court· 1979-06-20· cited 2,305×
• Michigan v. Tyler
  Supreme Court· 1978-05-31· cited 1,386×
• State v. Myrick
  Washington Supreme Court· 1984-09-13· cited 276×
• State v. Simpson
  Washington Supreme Court· 1980-12-31· cited 247×
• United States v. Osvaldo Rodriguez-Morales
  First Circuit· 1991-03-27· cited 206×
• State v. Chrisman
  Washington Supreme Court· 1984-01-26· cited 165×
• State v. Loewen
  Washington Supreme Court· 1982-07-01· cited 112×
• United States v. Ronald A. Erickson
  Ninth Circuit· 1993-04-12· cited 74×
• State v. Lynd
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1989-05-01· cited 60×
• State v. Bell
  Washington Supreme Court· 1987-05-14· cited 57×
• State v. Bakke
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1986-08-11· cited 35×
• State v. Nichols
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1978-06-19· cited 33×
• State v. Downey
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1989-01-09· cited 24×
• State v. Stevenson
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1989-10-18· cited 22×
• State v. Swenson
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1990-11-13· cited 20×
• State v. Foulkes
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1991-12-30· cited 11×