128 Wash. 2d 693 - State v. Deal’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
83 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 83 later decisions — most recently December 2012 · most notably State v. Roberts (2001), State v. Tili (1999)
83 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 · Sandstrom v. Montana · County Court of Ulster Cty. v. Allen · Bibby v. United States · Francis v. Franklin
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 83 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`[D]ue process is not offended if the prosecution shows that the inference more likely than not flows from the proven fact.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Eaton · State v. Cantu“[RCW] 9A.52.040, and burglary is unique ... a person [who] ... enters or remains unlawfully in a building, and [in this case], in the bedroom, may be inferred to have acted with [criminal] intent. And then the burden actually shifts [to Cantu] to show evidence satisfactory that the entry was made without such criminal intent.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Due process requires the State to bear the `burden of persuasion beyond a reasonable doubt of every essential element of a crime.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Cantu · State v. Sandoval
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.