State v. Ammons’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably Amalgamated Transit v. State (2000), In Re Personal Restraint of Andress (2002)
60 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. § 751
Relies on 121 Wash. 2d 552 - Hanson v. City of Snohomish · Wilson Court v. Tony Maroni's · State v. Chester · 97 Wash. 2d 255 - State v. Danforth · 119 Wash. 2d 204 - State v. Speaks
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A person is guilty of escape in the first degree if, being detained pursuant to a conviction of a felony or an equivalent juvenile offense, he escapes from custody or a detention facility.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“restraint pursuant to . . . an order of a court.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“were in custody on the date they were to report to work crew both because they were in restraint pursuant to an order of the court and because custody includes any period of service on a work crew.”
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.