52 Wash. App. 30 - State v. Bray’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably 82 Wash. App. 185 - State v. Doogan (1996), State v. Turner (2000)
33 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 84 Wash. 2d 256 - State v. Carothers · 13 Wash. 2d 542 - State v. Severns · 45 Wash. App. 571 - State v. Brown · State v. Pierson · 37 Wash. 2d 145 - State v. Lane
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hen a statute provides that a crime may be committed in alternative ways or by alternative means, the information may charge one or all of the alternatives, provided the alternatives are not repugnant to one another.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) A person is guilty of forgery if, with intent to injure or defraud: (a) He falsely makes, completes, or alters a written instrument or; (b) He possesses, utters, offers, disposes of, or puts off as true a written instrument which he knows to be forged.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Simmons · State v. Simmons“in subsequent instructions the crime charged was clearly and specifically defined to the jury.”
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.