State v. Wasson’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently October 2021 · most notably State v. Cleve (1999), State v. Vargas (2008)
47 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. Ogden · State v. Foulenfont · State v. Franks · State v. Pisio · State v. Ibn Omar-Muhammad
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A. falsely making or altering any signature to, or any part of, any writing purporting to have any legal efficacy with intent to injure or defraud; or B. knowingly issuing or transferring a forged writing with intent to injure or defraud.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Cearley · State v. Torres“The false signature changes the effect of the acknowledgement of receipt and promise to appear. Obviously such ac-knowledgement and promise to appear by a fictitious person is meaningless. It deceives the officer and the court system, not to mention risking trouble for some unknown person named “John Be-gay.” It conceals the true identity of the perpetrator of the alleged crime and seeks to obtain the release, without incarceration, of someone not entitled to release. In our opinion, all of these acts could be found by a jury to constitute an “intent to defraud.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Stahosky
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.