125 Wash. 2d 707 - State v. Byrd’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 139 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 145 later decisions — most recently July 2022 · most notably 147 Wash. 2d 330 - State v. Brown (2002), State v. Roberts (2001)
2 federal appellate · 139 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 In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Babich v. United States · 94 Wash. 2d 216 - State v. Green · Federal Trade Commission v. Textile & Apparel Group · 98 Wash. 2d 484 - State v. McCullum
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 145 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The State must prove every essential element of a crime beyond a reasonable doubt for a conviction to be upheld.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a] person is guilty of assault in the second degree if he or she . . . [a]ssaults another with a deadly weapon.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“[An assault is [also] an act, with unlawful force, done with intent to inflict bodily injury upon another, tending, but failing to accomplish it, and accompanied with the apparent present ability to inflict the bodily injury if not prevented. [It is not necessary that bodily injury be inflicted.]] [An assault is [also] an act, with unlawful force, done with the intent to create in another apprehension and fear of bodily injury, and which in fact creates in another a reasonable apprehension and imminent fear of bodily injury even though the actor did not actually intend to inflict bodily injury.]”
4 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.