39 Wash. 2d 675 - State v. Farmer’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2020 · most notably Mempa v. Rhay (1967), Menechino v. Oswald (1970)
11 federal appellate · 30 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 State Ex Rel. Linden v. Bunge · State v. Siglea · State v. Liliopoulos
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The court in granting probation, may suspend the imposing or the execution of the sentence and may direct that such suspension may continue for such period of time, not exceeding the maximum term of sentence except as hereinafter set forth and upon such terms and conditions as it shall determine.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““. . . The Defendant having made applicaton to the Court for probation and the Court having found Defendant eligible under the law to be granted probation, and the Court being fully advised in the premises, it is therefore, Ordered that the imposition of sentence against the Defendant herein be, and the same is hereby deferred for a period of 6 months, from date upon the following terms and conditions, to-wit: That the Defendant follow implicitly the instructions of the Board of Prison Terms and Paroles and the rules ■and regulations promulgated by the said Board for the conduct of the Defendant during the term of his probation hereunder. That the Defendant serve a term of 30 days in King County Jail beginning on Jan. 3, 1966. That Defendant pay all court costs including extradition expense, within 90 days from the date of this order. The Defendant is hereby Ordered committed to King County Jail to serve said term of 30 days, beginning Jan. 3, 1966. It Is Further Ordered that this order shall remain in full force and effect until the further order of the Court or until the same is revoked, modified or changed, or the period of probation is terminated by an order of the Court as provided by law. It Is Further Ordered that the Defendant' shall be released from the custody of the Sheriff of King County to an Officer of the Board of Prison Terms and Paroles, to receive his instructions, upon completion of said county jail term.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“`granted to the deserving and withheld from the undeserving' within the sound discretion of the trial judge.”
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.