State v. Branchal’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently December 2023 · most notably State v. Lopez (1999), State v. Smith (1986)
32 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 Hulver v. United States · 88 Wash. 2d 221 - State v. Wanrow · State v. Vogenthaler · State v. Heisler · State v. Martinez
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“require evidence that is `sufficient to allow reasonable minds to differ as to all elements of the defense.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Lopez · State v. Mann“an appearance of immediate danger of death or great bodily harm.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Lopez · State v. Mann“the defendant was put in fear by an apparent danger of immediate death or great bodily harm, that the killing resulted from that fear, and that the defendant acted as a reasonable person would act under those circumstances.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Lopez
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.