State v. Sacoco’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
78 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions — most recently April 2022 · most notably State v. Estrada (1987), State v. Kumukau (1990)
78 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 v. Ivan · Lawrence v. Industrial Commission · Lathem v. United States · Onstott v. State · 31 Wash. 2d 52 - In Re Pierce v. Smith
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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Generally, to constitute an abuse it must appear that the court clearly exceeded the bounds of reason or disregarded rules or principles of law or practice to the substantial detriment of a party litigant.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“It is a universally accepted aphorism in appellate jurisprudence that a discretion vested in a trial court and exercised by it will not be disturbed unless it affirmatively appears that there has been a plain abuse of such discretion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Anzalone.“The term `substantial right' has been defined generally as embracing the idea of a legal right something to which a party may lay claim as being legally entitled to.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ditto v. McCurdy
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.