37 Wash. App. 780 - State v. Vargas’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
2 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently August 2009
2 district · 21 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 88 Wash. 2d 221 - State v. Wanrow · 78 Wash. 2d 121 - State v. Golladay · 39 Wash. 2d 258 - State v. Olds · 2 Wash. 2d 118 - State v. Smith · 30 Wash. App. 351 - State v. Dorman
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Theft" means: (a) To wrongfully obtain or exert unauthorized control over the property or services of another or the value thereof, with intent to deprive him of such property or services; or (b) By color or aid of deception to obtain control over the property or services of another or the value thereof, with intent to deprive him of such property or services;”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“'Wrongfully obtains' or 'exerts unauthorized control' means:”
8 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Ager · State v. Komok“wrongfully obtain[ed] or exert[ed] unauthorized control”
2 later decisions 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.