55 Wash. 2d 469 - State v. Collins’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently November 2021 · most notably 106 Wash. 2d 514 - State v. Nordby (1986), 91 Wash. 2d 466 - State v. Foster (1979)
53 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 Hartig v. City of Seattle
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The principle of equality before the law is inconsistent with the existence of a power in a prosecuting attorney to elect, from person to person committing this offense, which degree of proof shall apply to his particular ease.””
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“negligent homicide by means of a motor vehicle.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Percer
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.