66 Wash. App. 423 - State v. Stark’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently October 2021 · most notably 94 Wash. App. 645 - Diehl v. Mason County (1999), State v. Conte (2007)
32 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 Estates v. Flipside, Hoffman Estates, Inc. · Kolender v. Lawson · 94 Wash. 2d 216 - State v. Green · Lockheed Shipbuilding Co. v. Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs · Shapiro v. Thompson
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“remaining terms are less vague or indefinite than they might otherwise be considered”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he exercise of prosecutorial discretion on whether to criminally charge someone involves a number of considerations, not the least of which is the public interest.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Whitfield · State v. Conte“Stark misapplies the rule regarding general and specific statutes. While provisions of a more recent specific statute prevail in a conflict with a more general predecessor, this rule applies only if the statutes deal with the same subject matter and the conflict cannot be harmonized.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Whitfield
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.