79 Wash. App. 755 - State v. Lopez’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently July 2013 · most notably State v. Stenson (1997), State v. Adel (1998)
50 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 Strickland v. Washington · Jackson v. Virginia · Brown v. Ohio · Albernaz v. United States · Wheat 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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the source of the drug or the manner in which it was possessed was a determining factor, a careful defendant could avoid the heightened penalty simply by making sure he acquired them in or divided them into amounts of less than two kilograms.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Adel“[I]t is difficult to see how the source of contraband or how it is held should have an effect on the crime of possession.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Adel
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.