68 Wash. App. 134 - State v. Potter’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently March 2016 · most notably Noble Manor Co. v. Pierce County (1997), Malted Mousse, Inc. v. Steinmetz (2003)
2 federal appellate · 45 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 United States v. Marion · United States v. Lovasco · United States v. Loud Hawk · Hayes v. Lockhart · United States v. Testan
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Statements in a case that do not relate to an issue before the court and are unnecessary to decide the case constitute obiter dictum, and need not be followed.”
6 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.