79 Wash. 2d 173 - State v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently May 2015
7 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 70 Wash. 2d 173 - Cox v. Charles Wright Academy, Inc. · 73 Wash. 2d 58 - State v. Brewer · 67 Wash. 2d 111 - State v. Alter · State ex rel. Orcutt v. Simpson · 75 Wash. 2d 47 - State v. Jestes
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) Whenever a person has entered upon a term of imprisonment in a penal or correctional institution of this state, and whenever during the continuance of the term of imprisonment there is pending in this state any untried indictment, information or complaint against the prisoner, he shall be brought to trial within one hundred twenty days after he shall have caused to be delivered to the prosecuting attorney and the superior court of the county in which the . . . information ... is pending written notice of the place of his imprisonment and his request for a final disposition to be made . . . (3) The superintendent having custody of the prisoner shall promptly inform him in writing of the source and contents of any untried indictment, information or complaint against him concerning which the superintendent has knowledge and of his right to make a request for final disposition thereof.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Rising“The above facts show that slightly over half of the 120-day statutory period had elapsed between the filing of the defendant’s letter requesting a dismissal and the commencement of his trial, discounting the period of the continuance. ROW 9.98.010, .... [Emphasis supplied.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Taylor“arbitrary, oppressive, vexatious or prejudicial delays which engender an unfair trial.”
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.