119 Wash. 2d 143 - State v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
111 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 111 later decisions — most recently August 2021 · most notably 125 Wash. 2d 782 - State v. Vangerpen (1995), 122 Wash. 2d 270 - State v. Valdobinos (1993)
111 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 In re Disbarment of Kleindienst · 117 Wash. 2d 93 - State v. Kjorsvik · Ferrante v. United States · United States v. Hooker · 91 Wash. 2d 342 - State v. Boyer
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 111 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“essential element is one whose specification is necessary to establish the very illegality of the behavior”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Leyda · State v. Ward“[a] bright line rule mandating dismissal of defective informations challenged before trial is workable and not unduly harsh, given the liberal amendment rule and the ease with which prosecutors can discern the elements of most common crimes.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[i]n all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall . . . be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation”
4 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.