111 Wash. 2d 591 - State v. Irizarry’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
71 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably State v. Brown (1997), State v. Pirtle (1995)
71 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 Witherspoon v. Illinois · Wainwright v. Witt · Adams v. Texas · Lockhart v. McCree · McComb v. Jacksonville Paper Co.
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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t is fundamental that under our state constitution an accused person must be informed of the criminal charge he or she is to meet at trial, and cannot be tried for an offense not charged.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a]ggravated first degree murder is not a crime in and of itself; the crime is ` premeditated murder in the first degree ... accompanied by the presence of one or more of the statutory aggravating circumstances listed in the criminal procedure title of the code (RCW 10.95.020).'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Thomas · State v. Roberts“Murder in the first degree. (1) A person is guilty of murder in the first degree when:”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.