State v. Heiskell’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently April 2012
13 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 109 Wash. 2d 1 - State v. Schaaf · 125 Wash. 2d 277 - Westerman v. Cary · 107 Wash. 2d 503 - Addleman v. Board of Prison Terms and Paroles · 122 Wash. 2d 553 - State v. Shawn P. · 127 Wash. 2d 281 - State v. McCraw
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[U]nder the rational basis standard the law must be rationally related to a legitimate state interest, and will be upheld unless the classification rests on grounds wholly irrelevant to the achievement of a legitimate state objective.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“`[standard] is the most relaxed and tolerant form of judicial scrutiny under the equal protection clause.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Representative Hargrove: What that amendment does is allow juvenile offenders under the age of fifteen who have not offended within 2 years after their conviction to petition the court for relief from the statute registration requirements and it's by the preponderance of the evidence rather than clear and cogent and convincing evidence that they can be relieved of the that statute. The thrust of the Hargrove amendment is to make it easier for a juvenile to wash their record clean and start over as an adult. . . . . Representative Riley: I would just like to speak against the amendment. Speak quickly and loud please. Representative Riley: The nature of the offense is the reason I am speaking against it, because it is such a compulsive type of offense, very likely to happen again, I don't think I would be willing to drop that to two years. I would like to see a longer time span, and I think that it is very unlikely that we would know within two years, so I would vote no on that. Further remarks, Representative Hargrove. Representative Hargrove: Well, some of the offenses we are including in having to register as a sex offender is ... in a sense consensual, playing doctor between two people more than two years apart ... we are not removing the requirement for registering as a sex offender. We are simply reducing the threshold, if they have done two years after having been convicted and dealt with and they have done two additional years after that without having any problem and y”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Heiskell
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.