State v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently December 2024 · most notably Amalgamated Transit v. State (2000), 142 Wash. 2d 183 - Amalgamated Transit Union Local 587 v. State (2000)
41 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 122 Wash. 2d 1 - Matter of Personal Restraint of Young · 105 Wash. 2d 175 - State v. Ammons · State v. Thorne · State v. Sanwick · State v. Manussier
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`In construing the meaning of an initiative, the language of the enactment is to be read as the average informed lay voter would read it.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“`split the previous deadly weapon enhancement into separate enhancements for firearms and for other deadly weapons.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Recuenco
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.