86 Wash. 2d 200 - State v. Starrish’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
68 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently February 2020 · most notably State v. Thorne (1996), 107 Wash. 2d 346 - State v. Knapstad (1986)
68 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 13 Cal. 3d 937 - People v. Orin · 3 Cal. 3d 89 - People v. Tenorio · 69 Cal. 2d 491 - People v. Superior Court · 47 Cal. 2d 45 - People v. Burke · Communist Party of United States v. Subversive Activities Control Bd.
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The court on its own motion in the furtherance of justice, after notice and hearing, may dismiss any criminal prosecution and shall set forth its reasons in a written order.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage“is designed to protect against arbitrary action or governmental misconduct and not to grant courts the authority to substitute their judgment for that of the prosecutor.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“`governmental misconduct or arbitrary action”
4 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.