109 Wash. 2d 29 - State v. Stannard’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
86 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 86 later decisions — most recently April 2020 · most notably 114 Wash. 2d 828 - State v. Fjermestad (1990), 116 Wash. 2d 794 - Cherry v. Municipality of Metropolitan Seattle (1991)
86 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Agurs · California v. Trombetta · 87 Wash. 2d 783 - State v. Wright
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 86 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Statutes should be construed to effect their purpose and unlikely, absurd or strained consequences should be avoided.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“The officer shall inform the person of his or her right to refuse the breath or blood test, and of his or her right to have additional tests administered by any qualified person of his or her choosing as provided in RCW 46.61.506. The officer shall warn the driver that (a) his or her privilege to drive will be revoked or denied if he or she refuses to submit to the test, and (b) that his or her refusal to take the test may be used in a criminal trial.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“to obtain evidence with which to impeach the results of the state-administered test.”
2 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.