117 Wash. 2d 587 - State v. Dunbar’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently March 2022 · most notably 128 Wash. 2d 739 - State v. Chhom (1996), State v. Kimbrough (1996)
2 federal appellate · 48 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 49 Wis. 2d 246 - State v. Melvin · 310 Pa. Super. 39 - Commonwealth v. Griffin · State v. Johnson · People v. Castro · 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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A person is guilty of an attempt to commit a crime if, with intent to commit a specific crime, he or she does any act which is a substantial step toward the commission of that crime.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Patel · State v. Patel“attempted murder requires an intent to bring about that result described by the crime of murder (i.e., the death of another).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he crime of attempt requires the actor to act with the objective or purpose of accomplishing a specific criminal result.”
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.