78 Wash. 2d 491 - State v. Jacobsen’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
73 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably 114 Wash. 2d 613 - State v. Swan (1990), 81 Wash. 2d 259 - State v. Reader's Digest Ass'n (1972)
73 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 Ah Sin v. Wittman · Edelman v. People of State of California · 76 Wash. 2d 449 - State v. Gefeller · 68 Wash. 2d 304 - State v. Louie · 75 Wash. 2d 926 - State v. Blanchey
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“forbids only those words or actions which have the effect of conveying to the jury a personal opinion of the trial judge regarding the credibility, weight or sufficiency of some evidence introduced at the trial.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“Defendant has neither asserted nor offered proof that the prosecutor’s conduct in this matter was without reasonable justification and constituted intentional or purposeful systematic discrimination in the enforcement of the law.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Criminal statutes need not spell out with absolute certainty every act or omission which is prohibited if the general terms of the act convey an understandable meaning to the average person.”
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.