92 Wash. 2d 193 - State v. Cann’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently May 2021 · most notably 119 Wash. 2d 167 - State v. Johnson (1992), 97 Wash. 2d 255 - State v. Danforth (1982)
53 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 78 Wash. 2d 9 - State v. Zornes · 90 Wash. 2d 584 - City of Seattle v. Buchanan · 89 Wash. 2d 236 - State v. Carter · 92 Wash. 2d 61 - State v. Zuanich · 81 Wash. 2d 618 - State v. Walls
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The rule is that where general and special laws are concurrent, the special law applies to the subject matter contemplated by it to the exclusion of the general.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he rule . . . does not require a forced, narrow, or overstrict construction which defeats the intent of the legislature.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“conduct designed to institute, aid, or facilitate an act or enterprise of prostitution.”
2 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.