118 Wash. 2d 151 - State v. Hopper’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
112 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 112 later decisions — most recently February 2020 · most notably 125 Wash. 2d 782 - State v. Vangerpen (1995), 119 Wash. 2d 143 - State v. Johnson (1992)
112 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 Stirone v. United States · Hagner v. United States · 106 Wash. 2d 54 - State v. Gunwall · 117 Wash. 2d 93 - State v. Kjorsvik · United States v. Pheaster
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 112 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) do the necessary facts appear in any form, or by fair construction can they be found, in the charging document; and, if so, (2) can the defendant show that he or she was nonetheless actually prejudiced by the inartful language which caused a lack of notice?”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[A]ll essential elements of a crime... must be included in the charging document so as to apprise the defendant of the charges against him and to allow him to prepare his defense.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[T]he question ... is whether all the words used would reasonably apprise an accused of the elements of the crime charged.”
3 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.