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State v. Brown

Is it still good law? What later courts have actually done to this case.

Good law
Court
Supreme Court of Washington
Citation
111 Wash.2d 124
Decided
Confirmed treatments
0
Flagged citations read
92 of 92
Citing cases (total)
167
Good law
Every flagged citation to this case has been read, and none of them overrules, limits, or questions it. State v. Brown remains good law: all 92 flagged citations have been read, and none adversely treated it. Most of the opinions reported Brown's overruling of earlier Washington decisions on other grounds; those history parentheticals describe Brown's act against another case, not treatment of Brown.
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The remaining opinions applied Brown, discussed its fractured rehearing posture without independently limiting it, cited other cases also named State v. Brown, or used “overruled” and “disapproved” for unrelated authorities and rulings. State v. Wickham cited Brown approvingly as an example of prospective application of the Luce rule.

Every treatment on this page is written from the citing opinion itself, with a verbatim quote, never copied from a commercial citator. A citation flagged by our screen but not shown here was read and found not to weaken this case.

167 later cases cite State v. Brown; 92 of those citations sat close to treatment language and were flagged for reading, and all of them have been read. Citations that did not sit near treatment language were not flagged and were not read one by one, so a court that weakened this case without using any of that language would not appear here.

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No reviewed court has overruled or limited this case.

Every one of the 92 flagged citations was read, and each turned out to be something other than adverse treatment: a routine application, a party's argument the court rejected, or the case itself discussing older law. That reading is the finding this page exists to report.

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