120 Wash. 2d 156 - State v. Coria’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
200 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 202 later decisions — most recently December 2024 · most notably State v. Hendrickson (1996), State v. Thorne (1996)
200 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
Applies 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 860 (§ 419 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Massachusetts Board of Retirement v. Murgia · Rideout v. United States · Gregory v. Ashcroft · Mississippi University for Women v. Hogan · Wrenn v. Weinberger
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 202 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a legislative classification will be upheld unless it rests on grounds wholly irrelevant to the achievement of legitimate state objectives.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“Equal Protection Clause requires that persons similarly situated with respect to the legitimate purposes of the laws receive like treatment.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“It may be unrealistic, of course to expect drug dealers to take these steps, but that is irrelevant to the question whether the statute is unconstitutionally vague. The defendants' failure to have been aware of the law and to have taken action to protect themselves against the enhanced penalty for their criminal conduct is no basis for declaring the statute unconstitutionally vague.”
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.