70 Wash. 2d 555 - State v. Ridgley’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently February 2020 · most notably 127 Wash. 2d 95 - State v. Gocken (1995), 108 Wash. 2d 125 - State v. Pascal (1987)
42 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 Green v. United States · Downum v. United States · Kepner v. United States · Clawans v. Rives · 54 Wash. 2d 388 - State v. Schoel
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“one who asserts the bar of double jeopardy ... must affirmatively establish (1) that he has previously been placed on trial for the same offense and (2) that the court of the former trial was one of competent jurisdiction to hear and determine the merits of the cause.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[W]hen a trial judge usurps the province of the jury and dismisses a criminal case as a matter of law, the state has a right of appeal from the alleged erroneous dismissal of the criminal charge.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Thus it is one of the elemental principles of our criminal law that the Government cannot secure a new trial by means of an appeal even though an acquittal may appear to be erroneous.””
1 later decision 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.