91 Wash. App. 44 - State v. Balzer’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently February 2015
18 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
Applies 21 U.S.C. § 801 (§ 101 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Cantwell v. State of Connecticut · Employment Division Department of Human Resources of Oregon v. L Smith · Rideout v. United States · City of Boerne v. Flores · United States v. Lee
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“courts have unrestricted ability to employ judicially noticed 'legislative facts’ in formulating legal principles”). 22 . The Help America Vote Act of 2002 (”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`judicially created affirmative defense that may excuse the defendant's behavior, notwithstanding the defendant's violation of the letter of the statute.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Rowell“the freedom to believe and the freedom to act. The first is absolute while the second, by the nature of our democracy, cannot be.”
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.