93 Wash. 2d 329 - State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
139 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 139 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably 126 Wash. 2d 136 - State v. Brett (1995), 95 Wash. 2d 898 - State v. Seagull (1981)
139 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. § 844 (§ 404 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Gregg v. Georgia · Roe v. Wade · Paul v. Davis · Furman v. Georgia · United States v. Russell
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 139 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A punishment is grossly disproportionate only if . . . the punishment is clearly arbitrary and shocking to the sense of justice.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[i]n order to defeat the legislation, the defendant must show, beyond a reasonable doubt, that no state of facts exists or can be conceived sufficient to justify the challenged classification, or that the facts have so far changed as to render the classification arbitrary and obsolete.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Two tests are used to judicially measure classifications alleged to violate equal protection: the strict scrutiny test and the rational relation test. The former is applied whenever a legislative classification involves a fundamental right or creates a suspect classification. The latter, the rational relation test, despite contrary dicta appearing from time to time in our cases, is used whenever legislation does not infringe upon fundamental rights or create a suspect classification.”
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.