87 Wash. 2d 932 - State v. Lee’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 79 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 87 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2023 · most notably Rummel v. Estelle (1980), 90 Wash. 2d 443 - State v. Workman (1978)
3 federal appellate · 79 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 Papachristou v. City of Jacksonville · Oyler v. Boles · Baggett v. Bullitt · 48 Wash. 2d 545 - In RE OLSEN v. Delmore · 78 Wash. 2d 9 - State v. Zornes
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 87 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he decision to prosecute [is] based on the prosecutor's ability to meet the proof required by the statute.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“A defendant's constitutional right to equal protection of the laws is not violated by the prosecutor's exercising a discretion in deciding to prosecute or not to prosecute violation of a criminal statute. The fact that this discretion extends to two or more crimes (instead of only one) does not convert this discretion into an unconstitutional delegation of legislative authority, or constitute a denial of the equal protection of the laws, even though the facts to be proven are very similar, and arise from different parts of the same series of actions by the accused defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Shriner““Every person convicted in this state . . . of any felony, who shall previously have been twice convicted, whether in this state or elsewhere, of : any crime which under the laws of this' 'state would amount to a felony, . . . shall be punished by imprisonment in the state penitentiary for life.””
1 later decision 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.