State v. Breazeale’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
65 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably State, Dept. of Ecology v. Campbell & Gwinn (2002), Department of Ecology v. Campbell & Gwinn, L.L.C. (2002)
65 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 Robertson v. Commonwealth · 97 Wash. 2d 385 - Tommy P. v. Board of County Commissioners · 75 Wash. 2d 1 - Dike v. Dike · 110 Wash. 2d 793 - In Re the Personal Restraint of King · Millay v. Cam
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The primary purpose of the civil contempt power is to coerce a party to comply with an order or judgment.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“Once the court vacates a record of conviction . . . the offender shall be released from all penalties and disabilities resulting from the offense. For all purposes, including responding to questions on employment applications, an offender whose conviction has been vacated may state that the offender has never been convicted of that crime. Nothing in this section affects or prevents the use of an offender’s prior conviction in a later criminal prosecution.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"Conviction or other disposition adverse to the subject" means any disposition of charges other than: (a) A decision not to prosecute; (b) a dismissal; or (c) acquittal; with the following exceptions, which shall be considered dispositions adverse to the subject: An acquittal due to a finding of not guilty by reason of insanity and a dismissal by reason of incompetency, pursuant to chapter 10.77 RCW; and a dismissal entered after a period of probation, suspension, or deferral of sentence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Riley
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.