94 Wash. 2d 839 - State v. Ermert’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
70 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently December 2020 · most notably 109 Wash. 2d 222 - State v. Thomas (1987), 98 Wash. 2d 484 - State v. McCullum (1983)
70 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 Jackson v. Virginia · 87 Wash. 2d 374 - State v. Arndt · 81 Wash. 2d 155 - Barry & Barry, Inc. v. Department of Motor Vehicles · 91 Wash. 2d 86 - State v. Adams · 86 Wash. 2d 419 - State v. Myers
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]fter considering the entire record, can it be said that the accused was afforded an effective representation and a fair and impartial trial?”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“The determination of crime[] and punishment is a legislative function.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Any person who by means of a wilfully false statement, or representation, or impersonation, or a wilful failure to reveal any material fact, condition or circumstance affecting eligibility of need for assistance, including medical care, surplus commodities and food stamps, as required by law, or a wilful failure to promptly notify the county office in writing as required by law or any change in status in respect to resources, or income, or need, or family composition, money contribution and other support, from whatever source derived, or any other change in circumstances affecting his eligibility or need for assistance, or other fraudulent device, obtains, or attempts to obtain, or aids or abets any person to obtain any public assistance to which he is not entitled or greater public assistance than that to which he is justly entitled shall be guilty of grand larceny and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by imprisonment in the state penitentiary for not more than fifteen years. Any person who by means of a wilfully false statement or representation or by impersonation or other fraudulent device aids or abets in buying, selling, or in any other way disposing of the real property of a recipient of public assistance without the consent of the secretary shall be guilty of a gross misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by imprisonment for not more than one year in the county jail or a fine of not to exceed one thousand dollars or by both.”
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.