105 Wash. 2d 511 - State v. Austin’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently February 2021
16 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 91 Wash. 2d 466 - State v. Foster · 94 Wash. 2d 1 - State v. Martin · 102 Wash. 2d 87 - State v. Osborne · 94 Wash. 2d 354 - State v. Majors · 81 Wash. 2d 95 - State v. Carroll
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he crimes for which a person may be convicted are limited to those charged in the information. State v. Foster, 91 Wn.2d 466 , 589 P.2d 789 (1979). Accord, State v. Martin, 94 Wn.2d 1 , 614 P.2d 164 (1980). There are two recognized exceptions to this latter rule: (1) where a defendant is convicted of a lesser included offense, RCW 10.61.006; and (2) where a defendant is convicted of a crime of an inferior degree to the one charged, RCW 10.61.003. State v. Foster , at 471.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A person is guilty of an attempt to commit crime if, with intent to commit a specific crime, he does any act which is a substantial step toward the commission of that crime.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hall
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.