74 Wash. 2d 231 - Matsen v. Kaiser’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently August 2014 · most notably State v. Breazeale (2001), United States v. Potts (1975)
11 federal appellate · 20 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 116 Cal. App. 2d 736 - Truchon v. Toomey · State Ex Rel. Guthrie v. Chapman · 64 Wash. 2d 503 - Tembruell v. City of Seattle · 23 Wash. 2d 155 - In Re Brandon v. Webb · 59 Wash. 2d 419 - State Ex Rel. Zempel v. Twitchell
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he only exception to the statutory release of all penalties and disabilities attendant upon a conviction is found in the proviso, which is not applicable in the instant case.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage““Every defendant who has fulfilled the conditions of his probation . may ... be permitted in the discretion of the court to withdraw his plea of guilty and enter a plea of not guilty . . . the court may in its discretion set aside the verdict of guilty; . . . the court may thereupon dismiss the information or indictment against such defendant, who shall thereafter be released from all penalties and disabilities resulting from the offense or crime of which he has been convicted.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the word conviction in criminal statutes has more than one meaning; it may mean a finding of guilt in one situation — as in a verdict or plea of guilty — or in other circumstances and in a different context may mean a formal finding or declaration of guilt — as in a judgment and sentence. State ex rel. Brown v. Superior Court, 79 Wash. 570 , 140 Pac. 555 (1914).”
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.