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In re the Personal Restraint of Stockwell

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Good law
Court
Supreme Court of Washington
Citation
179 Wash. 2d 588
Decided
Confirmed treatments
0
Flagged citations read
54 of 54
Citing cases (total)
54
Good law
Every flagged citation to this case has been read, and none of them overrules, limits, or questions it. In re the Personal Restraint of Stockwell remains good law: all 54 flagged citations have been read, and none adversely treated the decision. Later courts applied Stockwell's requirement that a person seeking to withdraw a guilty plea on collateral review because of a misstated statutory maximum show actual and substantial prejudice.
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Most nearby references to abrogation or overruling describe Stockwell's treatment of earlier Washington decisions, including State v. Kitchen and State v. Petrich, rather than any court acting against Stockwell.

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.

54 later cases cite In re the Personal Restraint of Stockwell; 54 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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Every one of the 54 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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