113 Wash. 2d 11 - State v. Handran’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently August 2023 · most notably 123 Wash. 2d 488 - State v. Ward (1994), 114 Wash. 2d 6 - State v. Elliott (1990)
53 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 Bouie v. City of Columbia · 101 Wash. 2d 566 - State v. Petrich · 101 Wash. 2d 481 - State v. Gore · 105 Wash. 2d 1 - State v. Bergeron · 100 Wash. 2d 607 - State v. Johnson
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1st. Every law that makes an action done before the passing of the law, and which was innocent when done, criminal; and punishes such action. 2d. Every law that aggravates a crime, or makes it greater than it was, when committed. 3d. Every law that changes the punishment, and inflicts a greater punishment, than the law annexed to the crime, when committed. 4th. Every law that alters the legal rules of evidence, and receives less, or different, testimony, than the law required at the time of the commission of the offence, in order to convict the offender.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“' the facts must be evaluated in a commonsense manner.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“It does not apply where the evidence indicates a 'continuing course of conduct.'”
2 later decisions 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.