85 Wash. 2d 29 - State v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
66 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently July 2008 · most notably 87 Wash. 2d 870 - State v. Striker (1976), 89 Wash. 2d 788 - State v. MacK (1978)
66 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 74 Wash. 2d 200 - State v. Niblack · 63 Wash. 2d 230 - State v. Ladiges
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If continuances are necessary, they should be sought or entered upon formal motion, with the reasons therefor being made a matter of record.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(c) Priority Over Civil Cases. Criminal trials shall take precedence over civil. A defendant unable to obtain pretrial release shall have priority and the charge shall be brought to trial within 60 days following the preliminary appearance.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“(b) These rules also apply to any proceedings in court then pending . . . , except to the extent that in the opinion of the court, the former procedure should continue to be made applicable in a particular case . . . because of infeasibility of application of the procedures of these rules.”
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.