46 Wash. App. 512 - State v. Postema’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently February 2009
7 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 Flint v. Stone Tracy Co. · 101 Wash. 2d 259 - State v. MacIolek · The Parker Mills v. . the Commissioners of Taxes · 103 Wash. 2d 853 - State v. O'NEILL · 103 Wash. 2d 720 - Nisqually Delta Ass'n v. City of DuPont
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Therefore, the test for vagueness is whether a person of common intelligence must necessarily guess at its meaning and differ as to its application. State v. O'Neill, [ 92 Wn.2d 61 , 593 P.2d 1314 (1979)]. This test includes two components: adequate notice to citizens and adequate standards to prevent arbitrary enforcement. [State v.] Maciolek, [ 101 Wn.2d 259, 264 , 676 P.2d 996 (1984)].”
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.