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110 Wash. 2d 16 - State v. Wilbur’s Empirical Analysis

1988

Citation profile

40
cited by 40 later decisions
3
states following
April 2009
most recently cited

40 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently April 2009 · most notably 112 Wash. 2d 347 - State v. Neher (1989), 116 Wash. 2d 414 - State v. Farmer (1991)

40 state decisions

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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 97 Wash. 2d 118 - Human Rights Commission v. Cheney School District No. 30 · 105 Wash. 2d 120 - State v. Hornaday · 101 Wash. 2d 425 - Power v. Utilities & Transp. Comm'n · 47 Wash. App. 558 - State v. Von Thiele · 106 Wash. 2d 122 - Jordan v. City of Oakville

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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “'fundamental fairness requires that a penal statute be literally and strictly construed in favor of the accused although a possible but strained interpretation in favor of the State might be found.'”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. Wimbs · 66 Wash. App. 745 - State v. Wissing
  2. “A person is guilty of patronizing a juvenile prostitute if that person engages or agrees or offers to engage in sexual conduct with a minor in return for a fee . . ..”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. 116 Wash. 2d 414 - State v. Farmer
  3. “If the statutory language is plain and unambiguous, the court's inquiry must end, for a statute's meaning must be derived from the wording of the statute itself.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. Wimbs

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.