114 Wash. 2d 700 - State v. Leech’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
72 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions — most recently August 2021 · most notably 119 Wash. 2d 167 - State v. Johnson (1992), 115 Wash. 2d 609 - State v. Dennison (1990)
72 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 People v. Washington · 112 Wash. 2d 347 - State v. Neher · 102 Wash. 2d 277 - State v. Dictado · 88 Wash. 2d 13 - State v. Thompson · 91 Wash. 2d 301 - State v. Wanrow
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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A person knows or acts knowingly or with knowledge when he or she is aware of a fact, facts or circumstances or result described by law as being a crime. If a person has information which would lead a reasonable person in the same situation to believe that facts exist which are described by law as being a crime, the jury is permitted but not required to find that he or she acted with knowledge.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“The purpose of the felony murder rule is to deter felons from killing negligently or accidentally by holding them strictly responsible for killings they commit.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“that the fire fighter's alleged negligence in using his breathing apparatus was not the sole cause of his death. Since his failure to use the apparatus would not have killed him had the defendant not set the arson fire, the defendant's conduct in setting the fire was a proximate cause of [the fire fighter's] death.”
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.