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93 Wash. 2d 288 - State v. Pettitt’s Empirical Analysis

1980

Citation profile

63
cited by 63 later decisions
4
states following
August 2020
most recently cited

61 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently August 2020 · most notably State v. Thorne (1996), 115 Wash. 2d 294 - State v. Lewis (1990)

61 state decisions

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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 · Oyler v. Boles · 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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “In our view, this fixed formula which requires a particular action in every case upon the happening of a specific series of events constitutes an abuse of the discretionary power lodged in the prosecuting attorney.”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. Rice · State v. City Court of City of Tucson
  2. “`decision to file criminal charges, with the awesome consequences it entails, requires consideration of a wide range of factors in addition to the strength of the Government's case, in order to determine whether prosecution would be in the public interest.'”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. Collins · State v. Carneh
  3. “The discretion lodged in the office necessarily assumes that the prosecutor will exercise it after an analysis of all available relevant information.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. Kinneman · State v. Pulfrey

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.