109 Wash. 2d 484 - State v. Pelkey’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
118 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 118 later decisions — most recently June 2021 · most notably 127 Wash. 2d 95 - State v. Gocken (1995), 125 Wash. 2d 782 - State v. Vangerpen (1995)
118 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 Benjamin v. United States · 91 Wash. 2d 466 - State v. Foster · 82 Wash. 2d 577 - State v. Roybal · 96 Wash. 2d 739 - State v. Anderson · 33 Wash. App. 428 - State v. Gosser
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 118 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The court may permit any information or bill of particulars to be amended at any time before verdict or finding if substantial rights of the defendant are not prejudiced.”
18 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hockaday · State v. Gehrke“[a] criminal charge may not be amended after the State has rested its case in chief unless the amendment is to a lesser degree of the same charge or a lesser included offense.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage“[i]n criminal prosecutions the accused shall have the right ... to demand the nature and cause of the accusation against him”
8 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.