State v. Blank’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
103 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 106 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably State v. Varga (2004), 191 Wash. 2d 732 - State v. Ramirez (2018)
103 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 18 U.S.C. § 3006A (Criminal Justice Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 1918
Relies on Landgraf v. USI Film Products · Bearden v. Georgia · Williams v. Illinois · Giaccio v. State of Pennsylvania · 106 Wash. 2d 54 - State v. Gunwall
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 106 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[a] statute operates prospectively when the precipitating event for [its] application ... occurs after the effective date of the statute.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“A statute does not operate `retrospectively' merely because it ... upsets expectations based in prior law.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Flint · State v. Varga“A party challenging the constitutionality of a statute has the heavy burden of proving its unconstitutionality beyond a reasonable doubt.”
3 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.