109 Wash. 2d 320 - State v. Box’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably Greene v. Lambert (2002), State v. Greene (1999)
3 federal appellate · 35 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 17
Relies on In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Mullaney v. Wilbur · Patterson v. New York · Leland v. Oregon · Jones v. United States
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) At the time of the commission of the offense, as a result of mental disease or defect, the mind of the actor was affected to such an extent that: (a) He was unable to perceive the nature and quality of the act with which he is charged; or (b) He was unable to tell right from wrong with reference to the particular act charged.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“"[I]nsanity entitles a defendant to an acquittal not because it establishes innocence (i.e., state has failed to prove element of criminal intent) but because the state declines to convict or punish one shown to have committed the crime while mentally impaired. ... In other words, the mental state of "insanity" does not go to the elements of the crime but merely the ultimate culpability of the accused."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“committing an act under an insane impulse does not make that act lawful.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.