73 Wash. 2d 58 - State v. Brewer’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently October 2009 · most notably 87 Wash. 2d 870 - State v. Striker (1976), 74 Wash. 2d 744 - State v. Smith (1968)
25 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2312 · 28 U.S.C. § 1739
Relies on United States v. Wade · Stovall v. Denno · Gilbert v. California · Klopfer v. State of North Carolina · Pollard v. United States
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If a defendant indicted or informed against for an offense, whose trial has not been postponed upon his own application, be not brought to trial within sixty days after the indictment is found or the information filed, the court shall order it to be dismissed, unless good cause to the contrary is shown.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“did not conceive []or contemplate that the limitation so established should become an inflexible yardstick by which the constitutional guarantees to a speedy trial of felony charges would be measured.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“An order dismissing a prosecution under the provisions of RCW 10.37.020, 10.46.010, and 10.46.090 shah bar another prosecution for a misdemeanor or gross misdemeanor where the prosecution dismissed charged the same misdemeanor or gross misdemeanor;.but in no other case shall such order of dismissal bar another prosecution.”
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.