State v. Eckblad’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently November 2021 · most notably State v. Bahl (2008), State v. Cantu (2006)
29 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 115 Wash. 2d 171 - City of Spokane v. Douglass · Ino Ino, Inc. v. City of Bellevue · Srcc v. Public Disclosure Com'n · Everhardt v. City of New Orleans · State v. Dixon
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A statute is vague if either it fails to define the offense with sufficient precision that a person of ordinary intelligence can understand it, or if it does not provide standards sufficiently specific to prevent arbitrary enforcement.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“(2) This section only applies to motor vehicles that meet the manual seat belt safety standards as set forth in federal motor vehicle safety standard 208 and to neighborhood electric vehicles. This section does not apply to a vehicle occupant for whom no safety belt is available when all designated seating positions as required by federal motor vehicle safety standard 208 are occupied. (3) Every person sixteen years of age or older operating or riding in a motor vehicle shall wear the safety belt assembly in a properly adjusted and securely fastened manner.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“We review the constitutionality of a statute de novo.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Boyd
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.