120 Wash. 2d 616 - State v. Schaffer’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently April 2021 · most notably 125 Wash. 2d 782 - State v. Vangerpen (1995), 174 Wash. 2d 269 - State v. Siers (2012)
50 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 117 Wash. 2d 93 - State v. Kjorsvik · 113 Wash. 2d 679 - State v. Leach · 93 Wash. 2d 186 - State v. Stephens · 109 Wash. 2d 484 - State v. Pelkey · 117 Wash. 2d 242 - Douglas v. Freeman
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the accused shall have the right . . . to demand the nature and cause of the accusation against him.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a] criminal charge may not be amended after the State has rested its case in chief unless the amendment is to a lesser degree of the same charge or a lesser included offense.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Ziegler · State v. Hakimi“[a] criminal defendant is to be provided with notice of all charged crimes.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Berrier · State v. Edvalds
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.