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102 Wash. 2d 182 - State v. Hicks’s Empirical Analysis

1984

Citation profile

72
cited by 72 later decisions
1
states following
July 2019
most recently cited

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

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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.

  1. “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
  2. “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 passage
  3. “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.