33 Wash. App. 1 - State v. Birgen’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently June 2013 · most notably 125 Wash. 2d 769 - State v. Calle (1995), 83 Wash. App. 803 - State v. Frohs (1996)
31 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 · Benton v. Maryland · Sibron v. State of New York Peters · Whalen 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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“rape statutes define a single crime of rape with the degree of punishment dependent on the underlying circumstances”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“We note . . . that the concurrent sentence rule fails to take into account the many punitive aspects of a criminal conviction besides the possible maximum sentence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.