102 Wash. 2d 341 - State v. McDowell’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently March 2013
8 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 Blackledge v. Perry · United States v. Goodwin · 31 Wash. App. 450 - State v. McKenzie · 32 Wash. App. 911 - State v. Penn · 33 Wash. App. 534 - State v. Johnson
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"(5) Where a case is legally sufficient, the prosecutor shall file an information with the juvenile court if: "(a) An alleged offender is accused of a class A felony, a class B felony, an attempt to commit a class B felony, assault in the third degree, rape in the third degree, or any other offense listed in RCW 13.40.020(1)(b) or (c); or " (b) An alleged offender is accused of a felony and has a criminal history of at least one class A or class B felony, or two class C felonies, or at least two gross misdemeanors, or at least two misdemeanors and one additional misdemeanor or gross misdemeanor, or at least one class C felony and one misdemeanor or gross misdemeanor; or "(c) An alleged offender has been referred by a diversion unit for prosecution or desires prosecution instead of diversion. "(6) Where a case is legally sufficient the prosecutor shall divert the case if the alleged offense is a misdemeanor or gross misdemeanor or violation and the alleged offense(s) in combination with the alleged offender's criminal history do not exceed three offenses or violations and do not include any felonies: Provided, That if the alleged offender is charged with a related offense that must or may be filed under subsections (5) and (7) of this section, a case under this subsection may also be filed."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The prosecutor's charging function under RCW 13.40.070(3), (5)—(7) . . . does not alter the prosecutor's traditional discretion when making the charging decision.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“suggest[ ] that actual vindictiveness is required to invalidate the prosecutor's adversarial decisions made prior to trial,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Korum
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.