165 Wash. 2d 783 - State v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently November 2021 · most notably State v. Bashaw (2010), State v. Nunez (2011)
2 federal appellate · 33 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 North Carolina v. Pearce · Burks v. United States · Benton v. Maryland · Tibbs v. Florida · Green v. United States
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A reversal for insufficient evidence is deemed equivalent to an acquittal, for double jeopardy purposes, because it means `no rational factfinder could have voted to convict' on the evidence presented.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“`valued right' to have the charges resolved by a particular tribunal.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Bashaw · State v. Nunez“That a person may not be retried for the same offense following an acquittal is `the most fundamental rule in the history of double jeopardy jurisprudence'.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Green
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.