State v. Carter’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently March 2026
13 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 147 Wash. 2d 330 - State v. Brown · State v. Roberts · 84 Wash. 2d 256 - State v. Carothers · State v. Cronin · 102 Wash. 2d 120 - State v. Rice
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.
“`An erroneous instruction is harmless if, from the record in [the] case, it appears beyond a reasonable doubt that the error complained of did not contribute to the verdict obtained.' Whether a flawed jury instruction is harmless error depends on the facts of a particular case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Montgomery
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.