State v. Simmons’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently October 2023
19 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 Mathews v. Eldridge · 81 Wash. 2d 155 - Barry & Barry, Inc. v. Department of Motor Vehicles · State v. Brown · 94 Wash. 2d 839 - State v. Ermert · Brower 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] party challenging the application of a law as violating equal protection principles has the burden of showing that the law is irrelevant to maintaining a state objective or that it creates an arbitrary classification.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Equal protection requires that persons similarly situated with respect to the legitimate purpose of the law receive like treatment.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“a system that clearly links an inmate's behavior... with the receipt or denial of earned early release days and other privileges.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Ramos
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.