104 Wash. 2d 844 - State v. Bartholomew’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably 105 Wash. 2d 692 - State v. Kwan Fai Mak (1986), 120 Wash. 2d 631 - State v. Benn (1993)
3 federal appellate · 34 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 · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Zant v. Stephens · Trop v. Dulles · Bullington v. Missouri
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in the statute indicates that the Legislature intended the two words to have different meanings:”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“The general rule is that the word `shall' is presumptively imperative and operates to create a duty rather than conferring discretion.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The prosecution has no right, statutory or constitutional, to usurp the jury's functions to determine mitigation in this case, and make the decision whether the defendant should live or die. The prosecutor does have the right to appear before the jury and ask for mitigation and the sparing of defendant's life. The final decision, however, will rest with the jury, subject to review by this court.”
1 later decision 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.