State v. Washington’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently December 2010
9 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 State v. Bowman · In re Clyne
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"(2) Except as otherwise provided in this section, a prosecution for all other crimes must be commenced within two (2) years after it is committed.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“"A criminal prosecution is commenced when a warrant on which the defendant is arrested is duly issued in good faith and delivered to the sheriff for service. This is true, although there may be subsequent unnecessary delay in executing the writ, but the time such delay continues is included in computing the period of limitation." 106 Kan. 430 , Syl. ¶ 5.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Washington“While the statute does not expressly so provide, the Supreme Court has held that a period of unreasonable delay in serving the warrant must be computed in determining if the prosecution is barred.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Washington
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.