101 Wash. 2d 259 - State v. MacIolek’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
88 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 89 later decisions — most recently December 2024 · most notably 109 Wash. 2d 107 - Haberman v. Washington Public Power Supply System (1988), 115 Wash. 2d 171 - City of Spokane v. Douglass (1990)
88 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 Kolender v. Lawson · Papachristou v. City of Jacksonville · 97 Wash. 2d 92 - State v. White · 91 Wash. 2d 466 - State v. Foster · 70 Wash. 2d 405 - City of Seattle v. Drew
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 89 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“What is forbidden by the due process clause are criminal statutes that contain no standards and allow police officers, judge, and jury to subjectively decide what conduct the statute proscribes or what conduct will comply with a statute in any given case. Thus ... we struck down statutes containing inherently subjective terms such as loiter or wander, wanders and prowls with unlawful purpose, [and] lawful excuse.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“[I]f men of ordinary intelligence can understand a penal statute, notwithstanding some possible areas of disagreement, it is not wanting in certainty.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a]n ordinance is presumed constitutional and the party challenging the constitutionality of the law has the burden of proving it is unconstitutionally vague beyond a reasonable doubt.”
4 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.