94 Wash. 2d 498 - State v. White’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently October 2021 · most notably 120 Wash. 2d 585 - State v. Greenwood (1993), 113 Wash. 2d 388 - State v. Fladebo (1989)
47 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 87 Wash. 2d 870 - State v. Striker · 90 Wash. 2d 423 - State v. Peterson · 89 Wash. 2d 788 - State v. MacK · 92 Wash. 2d 620 - State v. McIntyre · 85 Wash. 2d 29 - State v. Williams
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Then, it was commonplace for trials to be delayed for many months. Witnesses became unavailable, memories dimmed, evidence disappeared, and charges were required to be reduced or dismissed.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“(a) Responsibility of Court. It shall be the responsibility of the court to ensure a trial in accordance with this rule....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Carson · State v. Carson“it is in the best interest of all concerned that criminal matters be tried while they are fresh.”
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.