100 Wash. 2d 508 - State v. Phelan’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 105 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 112 later decisions — most recently January 2025 · most notably 120 Wash. 2d 156 - State v. Coria (1992), 117 Wash. 2d 263 - State v. Smith (1991)
5 federal appellate · 105 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 North Carolina v. Pearce · Plyler v. Doe · Rideout v. United States · Bates v. State Bar · O'Connor v. Donaldson
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 112 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“persons similarly situated with respect to the legitimate purpose of the law receive like treatment.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“`unless it rests on grounds wholly irrelevant to the achievement of a legitimate state objective.'”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“Since a denial of credit for presentence jail time involves both a deprivation of liberty in addition to that which would otherwise exist, and a classification based solely on wealth, we will apply an intermediate level of scrutiny in the present case.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.