State v. Willis’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently November 2021 · most notably State v. Barnes (2005), State v. Courtney C. Beamon (2013)
33 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 State v. Hickman · 122 Wash. 2d 270 - State v. Valdobinos · State v. Eastmond · Blaney v. International Ass'n of MacHinists · State v. Hickman
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“courts run the risk of punishing a defendant under the deadly weapon enhancement for having a weapon unrelated to the crime.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Easterlin · State v. Brown“[w]e . . . held that there must be a nexus between the defendant, the crime, and the deadly weapon in order to find that the defendant was `armed' under the deadly weapon enhancement statute”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“A person is `armed' if a weapon is easily accessible and readily available for use, either for offensive or defensive purposes”
2 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.