93 Wash. 2d 277 - State v. Rowe’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
69 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently July 2014 · most notably 106 Wash. 2d 212 - Bering v. Share (1986), 121 Wash. 2d 810 - Mains Farm Homeowners Ass'n v. Worthington (1993)
69 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 United States v. Lovasco · 61 Wash. 2d 374 - Miller v. City of Tacoma · 87 Wash. 2d 932 - State v. Lee · 91 Wash. 2d 603 - State v. Gilcrist · 78 Wash. 2d 491 - State v. Jacobsen
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`willful and unreasoning action, without consideration and in disregard of facts and circumstances.'”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage“"... it is within the prosecuting attorney's discretion to file charges or refuse to charge for reasons other than the mere ability to establish guilt. He may consider a wide range of factors in addition to the strength of the state's case in deciding whether prosecution would be in the public interest." 609 P.2d at 1353 .”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“Where the interpretation of a document must be made from the face of the instrument itself, this court is in as good a position as the trial court to interpret its meanings.”
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.