56 Wash. 2d 474 - State v. Beck’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2005
3 federal appellate · 11 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 Hoffman v. United States · Edwin Hale v. William Henkel · Grunewald v. United States · People v. . Fielding · Attorney General v. Pelletier
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Appellant asserts that the denial of his motion to set aside the indictment constituted error under our statutes and constitution and the constitution of the United States (App.Br. 35). "* * * Except for citing the well-recognized rule that grand juries should be impartial and unprejudiced (App.Br. 37), the cases are not otherwise applicable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Beck v. Washington“Teamsters' Cash Kept Going to Beck after He Became Union President, Says Prober.' Seattle Times, March 23, 1957. * * * 95”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Beck v. Washington
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.