State v. Halsten’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
8 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 21 U.S.C. § 802 (§ 102 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on 97 Wash. 2d 317 - Franklin County Sheriff's Office v. Sellers · State v. Thorne · Cockle v. Dept. of Labor and Industries · 116 Wash. 2d 342 - Rozner v. City of Bellevue · State v. Keller
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]hen the legislature intended a section to cover a drug and its salts, it was capable of saying so.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he issue is not whether a chemist might consider the two drugs to be essentially same. Rather, the issue is what is meant by the statutory term[s].”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Cromwell“[T]he court must resist the temptation to rewrite an unambiguous statute to suit its notions of what is good public policy.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Cromwell
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.