State v. Swenson

How courts have described this case

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

• indicating the State must instigate, encourage, counsel, direct, or control the conduct of the private person for that person to be an agent, and analyzing police behavior for encouragement
• state action when the government \ knew of and acquiesced in the intrusive conduct\ and the private citizen \intended to assist law enforcement efforts.\ (emphasis added) (quoting State v. Clark, 48 Wash.App. 850, 856, 743 P.2d 822 (1987))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

10 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Evans
  Washington Supreme Court· 2005-06-16· cited 128×
• In Re Domingo
  Washington Supreme Court· 2006-01-01· cited 43×
• In re the Personal Restraint of Domingo
  Washington Supreme Court· 2005-09-15· cited 41×
• State v. Teal
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2003-07-28· cited 27×
• State Of Washington, V. Timothy Forrest Bass
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2021-08-16· cited 26×
• City of Pasco v. Shaw
  Washington Supreme Court· 2007-09-13· cited 16×
• State v. Heritage
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2002-12-19· cited 6×
• City of Pasco v. Shaw
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2005-05-05· cited 3×
• State Of Washington, V. Timothy Forrest Bass
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2021-06-01
• Jessica Montesi, V. Brandon Montesi
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2025-06-30

Cites

23 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Pinkerton v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1946-10-14· cited 3,200×
• Nix v. Williams
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-11· cited 3,080×
• Burdeau v. McDowell
  Supreme Court· 1921-06-01· cited 1,253×
• State v. Gocken
  Washington Supreme Court· 1995-06-22· cited 214×
• United States v. Howard Eugene Miller
  Ninth Circuit· 1982-09-21· cited 144×
• State v. Jackson
  Washington Supreme Court· 1999-04-15· cited 136×
• United States v. Thurman Reed, Jr.
  Ninth Circuit· 1994-02-07· cited 119×
• State v. Davis
  Washington Supreme Court· 1984-05-31· cited 109×
• State v. Rice
  Washington Supreme Court· 1984-06-28· cited 108×
• State v. Wanrow
  Washington Supreme Court· 1978-12-28· cited 96×
• State v. Wolken
  Washington Supreme Court· 1985-05-23· cited 55×
• State v. Agee
  Washington Supreme Court· 1977-12-29· cited 53×
• State v. Clark
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1987-08-12· cited 45×
• State v. Thetford
  Washington Supreme Court· 1987-11-12· cited 37×
• State v. Langford
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1992-10-13· cited 32×
• State v. Richman
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1997-04-07· cited 30×
• State v. Smith
  Washington Supreme Court· 1988-06-09· cited 28×
• State v. Walter
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1992-08-10· cited 27×
• State v. Agee
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1976-06-28· cited 26×
• State v. Crisler
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1994-03-03· cited 15×