125 Wash. 2d 212 - State v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 157 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 165 later decisions — most recently August 2023 · most notably State v. JP (2003), In Re Orange (2005)
2 federal appellate · 157 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 118 Wash. 2d 551 - State v. Elgin · 105 Wash. 2d 120 - State v. Hornaday · 122 Wash. 2d 783 - State v. McGee · 71 Wash. App. 345 - State v. Bland · 67 Wash. App. 891 - State v. Walden
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 165 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Washington courts recognize three means of accomplishing an assault: '(1) an attempt, with unlawful force, to inflict bodily injury upon another [attempted battery]; (2) an unlawful touching with criminal intent [actual battery]; and (3) putting another in apprehension of harm whether or not the actor intends to inflict or is capable of inflicting that harm [common law assault].'”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“Specific intent cannot be presumed, but it can be inferred as a logical probability from all the facts and circumstances.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Bea · State v. Elmi“Plain language does not require construction.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.