118 Wash. 2d 911 - State v. Curry’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently January 2025 · most notably State v. Blank (1997), Schilling v. Radio Holdings, Inc. (1998)
54 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 Bearden v. Georgia · Williams v. Illinois · Fuller v. Oregon · LaBranche v. United States Olympic Committee · United States v. Pagan
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) Repayment must not be mandatory; (2) Repayment may be imposed only on convicted defendants; (3) Repayment may only be ordered if the defendant is or will be able to pay; (4) The financial resources of the defendant must be taken into account; (5) A repayment obligation may not be imposed if it appears there is no likelihood the defendant's indigency will end; (6) The convicted person must be permitted to petition the court for remission of the payment of costs or any unpaid portion; (7) The convicted person cannot be held in contempt for failure to repay if the default was not attributable to an intentional refusal to obey the court order or a failure to make a good faith effort to make repayment.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"[c]onstitutional principles will be implicated... only if the government seeks to enforce collection of the assessments `"at a time when [the defendant is] unable, through no fault of his own, to comply."'... "... It is at the point of enforced collection..., where an indigent may be faced with the alternatives of payment or imprisonment, that he "may assert a constitutional objection on the ground of his indigency."”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(3) The court shall not order a defendant to pay costs unless the defendant is or will be able to pay them. In determining the amount and method of payment of costs, the court shall take account of the financial resources of the defendant and the nature of the burden that payment of costs will impose.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.