70 Wash. 2d 109 - State v. Primeau’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently December 1991 · most notably 115 Wash. 2d 171 - City of Spokane v. Douglass (1990), 101 Wash. 2d 259 - State v. MacIolek (1984)
28 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 39 Wash. 2d 258 - State v. Olds · Goodrich v. Starrett · 64 Wash. 2d 929 - Mathewson v. Primeau · 37 Wash. 2d 777 - Casco Co. v. Public Utility District No. 1 · State v. Hoyle
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The accused, in criminal prosecutions, has a constitutional right to be apprised of the nature and cause of the accusation against him. . . . And this can only be made known by setting forth in the indictment or information every fact constituting an element of the offense charged. This doctrine is elementary and of universal application, and is founded on the plainest principles of justice.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Although the charge must apprise a defendant with reasonable certainty of the nature of the offense, it is usually deemed sufficient if it enables him to prepare his defense and plead any judgment in bar to a subsequent prosecution for the same offense.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[I]f the wording apprises a person of common understanding of the conduct sought to be proscribed, then it is not too vague or indefinite to meet the constitutional tests.”
2 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.