84 Wash. 2d 498 - State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
131 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 132 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably 125 Wash. 2d 277 - Westerman v. Cary (1995), Christensen v. Ellsworth (2007)
131 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 54 Wash. 2d 570 - Thorndike v. Hesperian Orchards, Inc. · State v. Roy · 288 So. 2d 490 - Bernhardt v. State · Parkison v. Thompson · 82 Wash. 2d 250 - Stender v. Twin City Foods, Inc.
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 132 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although a clear line of demarcation cannot always be delineated between what is substantive and what is procedural, the following general guidelines provide a useful framework for analysis. Substantive law prescribes norms for societal conduct and punishments for violations thereof. It thus creates, defines, and regulates primary rights. In contrast, practice and procedure pertain to the essentially mechanical operations of the courts by which substantive law, rights, and remedies are effectuated.”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) A defendant who has been found guilty of a felony and is awaiting sentencing shall be detained unless the court finds by clear and convincing evidence that the defendant is not likely to flee or to pose a danger to the safety of any other person or the community if released....”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“capital cases in which the proof of guilt is clear or the presumption great.”
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.