State v. Whitfield’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
October 2021
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Blakely v. Washington · Rideout v. United States · 94 Wash. 2d 216 - State v. Green · Allen v. Oklahoma · 94 Wash. 2d 634 - State v. Delmarter
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he exercise of prosecutorial discretion on whether to criminally charge someone involves a number of considerations, not the least of which is the public interest.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Conte“State v. Shriner, 101 Wash.2d 576, 580 , 681 P.2d 237 (1984).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Conte
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.