133 Wash. 2d 828 - State v. Sledge’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently January 2011 · most notably State v. Sledge (1998), State v. Walsh (2001)
38 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 Santobello v. New York · Mabry v. Johnson · Johnson v. Railway Express Agency, Inc. · 111 S. Ct. 425 - Insurance Co. of Pennsylvania v. Ben Cooper, Inc. · Mabry v. Johnson
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Due process requires a prosecutor to adhere to the terms of the agreement.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Quinn · In Re Lord“`[W]hen the prosecution breaches its promise with respect to an executed plea agreement, the defendant pleads guilty on a false premise, and hence his conviction cannot stand.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Keeping in mind the paramount due process rights of the defendant, however, we hold simply the State may not act so as to undermine a plea agreement to which it is a party.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Lord · State v. Van Buren
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.