123 Wash. 2d 488 - State v. Ward’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 112 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 126 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably Doe v. Poritz (1995), Commonwealth v. Williams (2003)
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 112 state decisions — followed in 27 states
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 Boykin v. Alabama · Weaver v. Graham · Kennedy v. Mendoza-Martinez · Trop v. Dulles · Collins v. Youngblood
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 126 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[w]hether the sanction involves an affirmative disability or restraint, whether it has historically been regarded as a punishment, whether it comes into play only on a finding of scienter, whether its operation will promote the traditional aims of punishmentretribution and deterrence, whether the behavior to which it applies is already a crime, whether an alternative purpose to which it may rationally be connected is assignable for it, and whether it appears excessive in relation to the alternative purpose assigned."”
6 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Burr · Meinders v. Weber“`Persons found to have committed a sex offense have a reduced expectation of privacy because of the public's interest in public safety and in the effective operation of government.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“`[T]he sole determination of whether a law is "disadvantageous”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Haynes · State v. Shultz
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.