102 Wash. 2d 182 - State v. Hicks’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
67 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably 113 Wash. 2d 869 - Boeing Co. v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. (1990), 114 Wash. 2d 907 - Industrial Indem. Co. of Northwest, Inc. v. Kallevig (1990)
67 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 88 Wash. 2d 221 - State v. Wanrow · 98 Wash. 2d 484 - State v. McCullum · 95 Wash. 2d 385 - State v. Theroff · 100 Wash. 2d 607 - State v. Johnson · 95 Wash. 2d 616 - State v. Jones
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In any prosecution for theft, it shall be a sufficient defense that the property or service was appropriated openly and avowedly under a claim of title made in good faith, even though the claim be untenable.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“This defense negates the element of intent to steal by providing that a defendant cannot be guilty of theft if the defendant takes property from another `under the good faith belief that he is the owner, or entitled to the possession, of the property.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Ager · State v. Chase“our settled case law is clear that `intent to steal' is an essential element of the crime of robbery.”
1 later decision 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.