8 Wash. App. 534 - State v. Newson’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently January 1990
4 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 Russell v. United States · Hartman v. United States · Smith v. United States · Rosen v. United States · Cochran 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]ccuses John Morton of the crime of Asking Or Receiving A Bribe, committed as'follows: He, the said John Morton on or about the 4th day of March, 1971, A.D., in the County of Cowlitz, State of Washington, and then and there being, did then and there unlawfully and feloniously receive compensation upon an agreement or understanding with another that his opinion, judgment, decision and action as a person who executes functions of a public officer shall be influenced thereby, to-wit: Said John Morton, an elementary school principal in the Woodland School District, No. 404, did receive One Hundred Twenty and No/100 ($120.00) Dollars from ALTA Industries, Inc. as compensation for an agreement, or understanding that said John Morton’s opinion, judgment, decision and action would be influenced to assist and promote the sale of office furniture to said School District, said act occurring in Cowlitz County, Washington; contrary to the Statute in such cases made and provided and against the peace and dignity of the State of Washington.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“But to this general rule there is the qualification, fundamental in the law of criminal procedure, that the accused must be apprised by the indictment, with reasonable certainty, of the nature of the accusation against him, to the end that he may prepare his defence, and plead the judgment as a bar to any subsequent prosecution for the same offence. An indictment not so framed is defective, although it may follow the language of the statute.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In criminal prosecutions the accused shall have the right ... to demand the nature and cause of the accusation against him”
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.