106 Wash. 2d 607 - State v. Malone’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably King County v. Central Puget Sound (2000), 142 Wash. 2d 543 - King County v. Central Puget Sound Growth Management Hearings Board (2000)
28 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 United States Steel Corporation v. United States Environmental Protection Agency · 101 Wash. 2d 106 - Condit v. Lewis Refrigeration Co. · 92 Wash. 2d 415 - Automobile Drivers & Demonstrators Union Local No. 882 v. Department of Retirement Systems · 89 Wash. 2d 23 - Strenge v. Clarke · 40 Wash. App. 91 - State v. Brown
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Any driver of a motor vehicle who wilfully fails or refuses to immediately bring his vehicle to a stop and who drives his vehicle in a manner indicating a wanton or wilful disregard for the lives or property of others while attempting to elude a pursuing police vehicle, after being given a visual or audible signal to bring the vehicle to a stop, shall be guilty of a class C felony. The signal given by the police officer may be by hand, voice, emergency light, or siren. The officer giving such a signal shall be in uniform and his vehicle shall be appropriately marked showing it to be an official police vehicle.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[n]o crime is committed if a defendant merely fails to immediately stop his vehicle. He must also engage in conduct that indicates a wanton [or] wilful disregard for the life and property of others.” Mather, 28 Wn. App. at 703 . Thus, eluding a pursuing police vehicle is not, in itself, a”
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.