Washington v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently February 2021 · most notably Gillie v. State (1991), Tarentino v. State (1990)
23 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 Conley v. State · McCraw v. State · State v. Block · Washington v. State
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We decided that Arkansas’s habitual criminal statute was not designed to act as a deterrent, as we had supposed ... but is simply a punitive statute, which provides in clear language that in an appropriate case, a prior conviction, regardless of the date of the crime, may be used to increase punishment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Montague
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.