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← 22 Wash. 2d 697 - In Re Costello

22 Wash. 2d 697 - In Re Costello’s Empirical Analysis

1945

Citation profile

11
cited by 11 later decisions
1
states following
February 2012
most recently cited

11 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently February 2012

11 state decisions

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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 In re Conditional Discharge of Convicts · Jamison v. Flanner · Spencer v. Kees · State ex rel. Rogers v. Jenkins

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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “"’WHEREAS, it now appears that no useful purpose will be served by continuing . . . Thomas W. Costello on parole, “’NOW, THEREFORE, the Board of Prison Terms and Paroles of the State of Washington, by virtue of the authority vested in it by the laws of said state, does hereby release and discharge said Thomas W. Costello from any further obligation imposed upon him as a condition of his said parole.’ ” (Italics omitted.)”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. Aguirre
  2. “[w]here the power is given to the governor by the constitution in unrestricted terms, it cannot be taken away, nor can a like power be given by the legislature to any other officer or authority.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. Aguirre
  3. “"The pardoning power shall be vested in the governor, under such regulations and restrictions as may be prescribed by law.””
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. Aguirre

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.