81 Wash. 2d 618 - State v. Walls’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently February 2021 · most notably 97 Wash. 2d 255 - State v. Danforth (1982), 101 Wash. 2d 576 - State v. Shriner (1984)
25 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1707 · 18 U.S.C. § 641 (Livestock Fraud Protection Act)
Relies on United States v. Radio Television News Directors Ass'n · Leyvas v. United States · 73 Wash. 2d 405 - Markham Advertising Co. v. State · Thompson v. United States · 55 Wash. 2d 469 - State v. Collins
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“where a general statute and a subsequent special law relate to the same subject, the provisions of the special statute must prevail.”
2 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.