87 Wash. 2d 258 - Jansen v. Morris’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently February 2009
3 federal appellate · 16 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 48 Wash. 2d 545 - In RE OLSEN v. Delmore · 75 Wash. 2d 926 - State v. Blanchey · 57 Wash. 2d 484 - State v. Boggs · 5 Wash. App. 146 - State v. Hurst · 37 Wash. 2d 236 - State v. Tugas
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[s]tatutes which define one crime classification, i.e., a felony or a misdemeanor, and permit only a variation in punishment do not violate the equal protection clause.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[The distinction] results from a meeting of our two goals of treating all men equally in the guilt determination process while retaining some flexibility and individualized treatment at the punishment stage.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“furnish[es] a rational basis for varying the sentence and the resultant punishment that each defendant receives.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Lopez · State v. King
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.