101 Wash. 2d 612 - State v. Acosta’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
135 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 135 later decisions — most recently March 2022 · most notably 109 Wash. 2d 222 - State v. Thomas (1987), State v. Pirtle (1995)
135 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 In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Sandstrom v. Montana · Connecticut v. Johnson · Helfat v. Securities & Exchange Commission · Weingarden v. United States
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 135 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the test is whether the jury was informed, or could understand from the instructions as a whole, that the State bears the burden of proof”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“To convict the defendant of the crime of assault in the second degree, each of the following elements of the crime must be proved beyond a reasonable doubt:”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“in some unambiguous way that the State must prove absence of self-defense beyond a reasonable doubt.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.