75 Wash. 2d 768 - January v. Porter’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently January 2022 · most notably United States v. Klein (1988), State v. Wagstaff (1990)
3 federal appellate · 49 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 Lindsey v. State of Washington · Johnson v. Stevenson · Lunn v. F. W. Woolworth Co. · 35 Wis. 2d 159 - Gaertner v. State · 39 Wash. 2d 675 - State v. Farmer
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[P]arole is not a right but a mere privilege conferred as an act of grace by the state through its own administrative agency.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“Upon the entry of a final judgment and sentence of imprisonment, legal authority over the accused passes by operation of law to the [prison].”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[h]is status on parole has been aptly described as that of one who is simply serving his time outside the prison walls.”
3 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.