State v. Lee’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently June 2023 · most notably Davis v. Department of Licensing (1999), State v. Whitesell (2000)
49 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 Paul v. Davis · Broadrick v. Oklahoma · Griswold v. State of Connecticut · Shapiro v. Thompson · Thornhill v. Alabama
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] statute is void for vagueness if it is framed in terms so vague that persons of common intelligence must necessarily guess at its meaning and differ as to its applicability.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[i]ndividuals have a constitutional right to move about as long as they are not committing a crime”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“`will interpret the Washington constitution coextensively with its parallel federal counterpart.'”
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.