113 Wash. 2d 226 - State v. MacMaster’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently December 2016 · most notably 147 Wash. 2d 330 - State v. Brown (2002), State v. Smith (1997)
31 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 94 Wash. 2d 216 - State v. Green · 88 Wash. 2d 221 - State v. Wanrow · 98 Wash. 2d 484 - State v. McCullum · 96 Wash. 2d 816 - State v. Franco · 101 Wash. 2d 612 - State v. Acosta
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(4) That the injury occurred in Yakima County, Washington.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“"When the death of any person ensues within three years as a proximate result of injury proximately caused by the driving of any vehicle by any person while under the influence of intoxicating liquor or any drug, as defined by RCW 46.61.502, or by the operation of any vehicle in a reckless manner or with disregard for the safety of others, the person so operating such vehicle is guilty of vehicular homicide."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“For defendant to be guilty of vehicular homicide, the condition of impairment due to alcohol must have been a proximate cause of the fatal accident.”
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.