State v. Delgado’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
148 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 149 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably State v. JP (2003), State v. J.P. (2003)
148 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 State, Dept. of Ecology v. Campbell & Gwinn · Schick v. United States · 105 Wash. 2d 175 - State v. Ammons · Department of Ecology v. Campbell & Gwinn, L.L.C. · State v. Sanwick
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 149 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“cannot add words or clauses to an unambiguous statute when the legislature has chosen not to include that language.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Thompson · State v. S.M.G.“a reading that results in absurd results must be avoided because it will not be presumed that the legislature intended absurd results.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“we give it a literal and strict interpretation.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.