Vaughn v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 231 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 237 later decisions — most recently October 2025 · most notably State v. Ebron (2009), Dysthe v. State (2003)
3 federal appellate · 231 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 Martin v. State · 41 Wash. App. 495 - Byerly v. Madsen · Jahnke v. State · Love v. Love · Miller v. State
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 237 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Judicial discretion is a composite of many things, among which are conclusions drawn from objective criteria; it means a sound judgment exercised with regard to what is right under the circumstances and without doing so arbitrarily or capriciously.”
107 later decisions quote this exact passage“determine whether the trial court could reasonably conclude as it did and whether any facet of its ruling was arbitrary or capricious.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Burton v. State · Cook v. State“the ultimate issue is whether or not the court could reasonably conclude as it did.”
6 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.