114 Wash. 2d 713 - State v. Bythrow’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably 125 Wash. 2d 847 - State v. Lough (1995), In Re Davis (2004)
51 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 California v. Civil Aeronautics Board · Drew v. United States · Cabrera-Martinez v. United States · Pope v. Nebraska · Youngberg 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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the court determines that severance will promote a fair determination of the defendant's guilt or innocence of each offense.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a] separate crime is charged in each count. You must decide each count separately. Your verdict on one count should not control your verdict on any other count.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Defendants seeking severance must not only establish that prejudicial effects of joinder have been produced, but they must also demonstrate that a joint trial would be so prejudicial as to outweigh concern for judicial economy.”
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.