92 Wash. 2d 148 - State v. Langworthy’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently June 2016 · most notably 122 Wash. 2d 270 - State v. Valdobinos (1993), State v. Miller (1997)
25 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 Iannelli v. United States · Baker v. United States · United States v. Rueter · 5 Wash. App. 373 - State v. Catterall · 7 Wash. App. 621 - State v. Warnock
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The widely recognized rule of construction known as Wharton’s Rule states that when a substantive offense necessarily requires the participation of two persons, and where no more than two persons are alleged to have been involved in the agreement to commit the offense, the charge of conspiracy will not lie. 1 R. Anderson, Wharton’s Criminal Law & Procedure s 89 at p. 191 (1957).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“delivery necessarily requires the participation of two persons”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Bernal
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.