127 Wash. 2d 490 - State v. Eakins’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently October 2011
22 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 Bottone v. United States · 121 Wash. 2d 220 - State v. Janes · 125 Wash. 2d 707 - State v. Byrd · State v. Aplaca · 102 Wash. 2d 188 - State v. Kelly
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To show diminished capacity, a criminal defendant must produce expert testimony demonstrating the defendant suffered from a mental condition that impaired his or her ability to form the requisite specific intent.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Ellis · State v. Turner“[Evidence of pertinent traits of character] are relevant and admissible if the traits support inferences that the defendant probably ... did not have the necessary mental state to make him guilty of the charged offense. Such evidence is also relevant and admissible if it supports any defense against the charged crime, including such affirmative defenses as coercion or self-defense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a pertinent character trait is one that tends to make the existence of any material fact more or less probable than it would be without evidence of that trait.”
1 later decision 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.