109 Wash. 2d 832 - State v. Coe’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 62 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably 127 Wash. 2d 67 - Hue v. Farmboy Spray Co., Inc. (1995), 153 Wash. 2d 765 - State v. Freeman (2005)
1 federal appellate · 62 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 Irvin v. Dowd · Bibby v. United States · Rock v. Arkansas · Frye v. United States · Patton v. Yount
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he Legislature is deemed to acquiesce in the interpretation of the court if no change is made for a substantial time after the decision.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“This type of threat is equally terrifying and effective whether or not the perpetrator actually possesses a deadly weapon, in light of the personal nature of the crime and the inability of a victim to defend against a bullet or other deadly force.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Bright“[T]he effect upon the victim is the same whether the deadly weapon is actually seen or merely described, by removing the possibility of self-defense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Bright
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.