127 Wash. 2d 807 - State v. Myles’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
63 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably State v. Thorne (1996), State v. JM (2001)
63 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 Kolender v. Lawson · 94 Wash. 2d 216 - State v. Green · 106 Wash. 2d 54 - State v. Gunwall · 119 Wash. 2d 192 - State v. Salinas · 115 Wash. 2d 171 - City of Spokane v. Douglass
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“does not define the criminal offense with sufficient definiteness that ordinary people can understand what conduct is proscribed,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Thorne · State v. Flores“ascertainable standards of guilt to protect against arbitrary enforcement.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A]ll reasonable inferences from the evidence must be drawn in favor of the State and interpreted most strongly against the defendant.”
2 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.