122 Wash. 2d 783 - State v. McGee’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
80 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 82 later decisions — most recently October 2023 · most notably 126 Wash. 2d 136 - State v. Brett (1995), 125 Wash. 2d 212 - State v. Wilson (1994)
80 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. § 860 (§ 419 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on United States v. Bass · Daniel v. Security Pacific National Bank · Chapman v. United States · Lewis v. United States · Bifulco v. United States
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 82 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) Any person who violates RCW 69.50.401(a) by manufacturing, selling, delivering, or possessing with the intent to manufacture, sell, or deliver a controlled substance ... to a person: .... (6) In a public housing project designated by a local governing authority as a drug-free zone; .... may be punished by ... imprisonment of up to twice the imprisonment otherwise authorized by this chapter.... The provisions of this section shall not operate to more than double the ... imprisonment otherwise authorized by this chapter for an offense.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“A statute is ambiguous if it is subject to two or more reasonable interpretations.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The [last antecedent] rule is another aid to discovery of intent or meaning and is not inflexible or uniformly binding. Where the sense of the entire act requires that a qualifying word or phrase apply to several preceding or even succeeding sections, the word or phrase will not be restricted to its immediate antecedent.”
1 later decision 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.