128 Wash. 2d 262 - State v. Cole’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
130 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 130 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably Commonwealth v. Torres (2001), State v. Thein (1999)
130 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. § 881 (§ 511 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Blockburger v. United States · North Carolina v. Pearce · United States v. Halper · Austin v. United States · United States v. $40508923 US Currency
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 130 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... double jeopardy analysis in [civil forfeiture] cases involves three inquiries: (a) whether the forfeitures at issue constituted `punishment'; and, if so, (b) whether the forfeiture and criminal proceedings against each Petitioner constituted separate `proceedings' (c) arising from the `same offense.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Catlett“a forfeiture under RCW 69.50.505(a)(7), the statute at issue here, must be considered punishment”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Catlett“(a) The following are subject to seizure and forfeiture and no property right exists in them:”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Catlett
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.