31 Wash. App. 883 - State v. Potter’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably 125 Wash. 2d 769 - State v. Calle (1995), 127 Wash. 2d 95 - State v. Gocken (1995)
45 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 Blockburger v. United States · North Carolina v. Pearce · Brown v. Ohio · Whalen v. United States · Albernaz 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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“compared in light of what did in fact occur,”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“we do not have sufficient confidence in its fitness for discerning legislative intent”. Potter , at 888. The Court of Appeals cited Potter when it again declined to accept the result of the Blockburger test in Birgen . At issue in Birgen was whether convictions for third degree rape and third degree statutory rape that arose out of the same act of intercourse could stand. The Birgen court agreed with the State that under the”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“test had led to unsatisfactory results. In Potter , the defendant was found guilty of (and given consecutive sentences for) reckless driving and reckless endangerment. Although the Potter court did not set forth the statutory elements of the two offenses, it”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Orange
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.