47 Wash. App. 530 - State v. Raper’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably 120 Wash. 2d 585 - State v. Greenwood (1993), 121 Wash. 2d 504 - State v. Thomas (1993)
41 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 Bibby v. United States · 104 Wash. 2d 412 - State v. Guloy · 105 Wash. 2d 632 - State v. Terrovona · 94 Wash. 2d 498 - State v. White · 40 Wash. App. 91 - State v. Brown
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A court rule must be construed so that no word, clause or sentence is superfluous, void or insignificant. The language must be given its plain meaning according to English grammar usage. When the language of a rule is clear, a court cannot construe it contrary to its plain statement.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Dassow · State v. Osman“On motion of the State, the court or a party, the court may continue the case when required in the administration of justice and the defendant will not be substantially prejudiced in the presentation of the defense. The motion must be filed on or before the date set for trial or the last day of any continuance or extension granted pursuant to this rule. The court must state on the record or in writing the reasons for the continuance.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[w]hen a trial is not begun on the date set because of unavoidable or unforeseen circumstances . . . the court. . . may extend the time in which trial must be held”. (Italics ours.)”
3 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.