54 Wash. App. 638 - State v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently April 2025
15 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 Bell v. Wolfish · 109 Wash. 2d 29 - State v. Stannard · 97 Wash. 2d 454 - DEP'T OF TRANSPORTATION v. Seib · 111 Wash. 2d 524 - State v. Sommerville · 99 Wash. 2d 832 - Public Employment Relations Commission v. City of Kennewick
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) The petitioner shall allege under oath in the petition that the wrongful conduct charged is the result of or caused by alcoholism, drug addiction, or mental problems for which the person is in need of treatment and unless treated the probability of future reoccurrence is great, along with a statement that the person agrees to pay the cost of a diagnosis and treatment of the alleged problem or problems if financially able to do so. The petition shall also contain a case history and written assessment prepared by an approved alcoholism treatment facility as designated in chapter 70.96A RCW if the petition alleges alcoholism, an approved drug program as designated in chapter 71.24 RCW if the petition alleges drug addiction, or by an approved mental health center if the petition alleges a mental problem. (2) Before entry of an order deferring prosecution, a petitioner shall be advised of his rights as an accused and execute, as condition of receiving treatment, a statement that contains: (a) An acknowledgment of his rights; (b) a stipulation to the admissibility of the facts contained in the written police report', and (c) an acknowledgment that the statement will be entered and used to support a finding of guilty if the court finds cause to revoke the order granting deferred prosecution. . . . He shall also be advised that the court will not accept a petition for deferred prosecution from a person who sincerely believes that he is innocent of the charges or sincerely believe”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Abad v. Cozza · Abad v. Cozza“Because deferred prosecution is a creature of statute, the District Court's authority with regard to the imposition of conditions of deferred prosecution must be measured by statutory law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Abad v. Cozza“Deferred prosecution occurs, as its name implies, prior to any adjudication of guilt or innocence”.); Vinge, 59 Wn. App. at 138 (”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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