State v. Whitman’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently March 1965
15 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 People v. . Bliven · State v. Gifford · State v. Lawlor · Harrington v. St. Paul & Sioux City Railroad · State v. Briggs
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The defendant’s counsel contends that he was not ‘informed of the nature and cause of the accusation’ against him, as required by section 6 of article 1 of. the Constitution of the state. “At common law a distinction was made between an accessory before the fact and a principal. . . . This distinction was technical, for what one does by another he does by himself. The common-law rule has been expressly abolished by our Penal Code (Rev. Laws 1905, § 4758). . . . “In the case of State v. Gifford, 19 Wash. 464 , 53 Pac. 709 , a contrary conclusion was reached. ... We, however, hold . . . that one who at common laAv Avould be an accessory before the fact may be charged directly by the indictment with the commission of the felony as principal, and on his trial evidence may be received to show that he procured the crime to be committed, and, further, that the reception of such evidence is neither a variance nor a violation of section 6, article 1, of our Constitution, providing that in criminal cases the accused shall be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation against him.””
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.