35 Wash. App. 799 - State v. Farrington’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently July 2009
9 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 78 Wash. 2d 9 - State v. Zornes · 97 Wash. 2d 255 - State v. Danforth · 91 Wash. 2d 301 - State v. Wanrow · 92 Wash. 2d 193 - State v. Cann · 66 Wash. 2d 243 - State v. Reid
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.
“The rule is that where general and special laws are concurrent, the special law applies to the subject matter contemplated by it to the exclusion of the general. As these cases hold, where a special statute punishes the same conduct which is punished under a general statute, the special statute applies and the accused can be charged only under that statute.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[e]qual protection is violated when a prosecutor is permitted to seek varying degrees of punishment when proving identical criminal elements”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“For Mr. Farrington's equal protection claim to have merit, incest and indecent liberties must have identical elements and a violation of the incest statute must necessarily violate the indecent liberties statute. The elements of the two crimes are not identical. Incest requires proof of sexual intercourse, while indecent liberties requires proof only of sexual contact. Of the three possible ways of committing indecent liberties, two require proof of lack of consent. Consent is not an issue in an incest charge. State v. Coffey, 8 Wn.2d 504 , 112 P.2d 989 (1941). Moreover, it is possible to commit the crime of incest without committing the crime of indecent liberties. For example, a defendant could engage in consensual sexual intercourse with his adult sister and violate the incest statute, but not the indecent liberties statute. Thus, we hold incest is not a special statute which supersedes indecent liberties.”
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.