128 Wash. 2d 896 - State v. LeFaber’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
120 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 120 later decisions — most recently February 2022 · most notably State v. O'HARA (2009), Matter of Personal Restraint of Benn (1998)
120 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 127 Wash. 2d 322 - State v. McFarland · 110 Wash. 2d 682 - State v. Scott · 101 Wash. 2d 591 - State v. Allery · 101 Wash. 2d 612 - State v. Acosta · 114 Wash. 2d 867 - State v. Henderson
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 120 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is a defense to a charge of Murder in the Second Degree, Manslaughter in the First Degree, or Manslaughter in the Second Degree that the homicide was justifiable as defined in this instruction. Homicide is justifiable when committed in the lawful defense of the defendant when: (1) the defendant reasonably believed that the victim intended to inflict death or great personal injury; and (2) the defendant reasonably believed that there was imminent danger of such harm being accomplished; and (3) the defendant employed such force and means as a reasonably prudent person would use under the same or similar conditions as they reasonably appeared to the defendant, taking into consideration all the facts and circumstances as they appeared to him, at the time of the incident. The State has the burden of proving beyond a reasonable doubt that the homicide was not justifiable. If you find that the State has not proved the absence of this defense beyond a reasonable doubt, it will be your duty to return a verdict of not guilty.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he instructions, read as a whole, must make the relevant legal standard `manifestly apparent to the average juror'”
9 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Imokawa · State v. Woods“`imminent danger of such harm being accomplished.'”
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.