107 Wash. 2d 848 - State v. Ollens’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently October 2016 · most notably State v. Pirtle (1995), 119 Wash. 2d 294 - State v. Ortiz (1992)
26 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 Jackson v. Virginia · 94 Wash. 2d 216 - State v. Green · 70 Cal. 2d 15 - People v. Anderson · Austin v. United States · 98 Wash. 2d 30 - State v. Robtoy
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the mental process of thinking beforehand, deliberation, reflection, weighing or reasoning for a period of time, however short.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“Instruction number 11: Premeditated means thought over beforehand. When a person, after any deliberation, forms an intent to take human life, the killing may follow immediately after the formation of the settled purpose and it will still be premeditation. Premeditation must involve more than a moment in point of time. The law requires some time, however long or short, in which a design to kill is deliberately formed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Clark“whether, after viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution, any rational trier of fact could have found the essential elements of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt.”
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.