55 Wash. App. 591 - State v. Heggins’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently May 2011
13 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Edwards v. Arizona · Ohio v. Roberts · Solem v. Helm
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We do not believe that two recent United States Supreme Court cases cited by [defendant] require, as he claims, reconsideration of Wanrow. These cases involve principles related to disproportionate sentences impermissible under the Eighth Amendment. Neither case involves merger principles and the cases are inapposite to the issues and rationale of Wanrow.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The testifying witness need not have conducted nor personally observed all of the tests .. . contained in the report, so long as it was prepared under the witness' supervision.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“never embraced the theory that a defendant's ignorance of the full consequences of his decisions vitiates their voluntariness”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Curtiss
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.