Worthington v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently August 2008
10 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 North Carolina v. Pearce · Blackledge v. Perry · Ortiz v. State · 3 Cal. 3d 615 - People v. Archerd · 48 Wash. 2d 545 - In RE OLSEN v. Delmore
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"(A defendant's constitutional right to equal protection of the laws is not violated by the prosecutor exercising discretion in deciding to prosecute or not to prosecute a violation of a criminal statute.)"”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Young v. State“"Prejudice flowing from such a [pre-in-dictment] delay may be shown by the loss of a material witness or other missing evidence or fading memory caused by lapse of time."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Webb v. State
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.