13 Wash. 2d 542 - State v. Severns’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently May 2021 · most notably 84 Wash. 2d 256 - State v. Carothers (1974), State v. Whittemore (1961)
50 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 State v. Gay · State v. Morden · State v. Hilsinger · State v. Meyerkamp · State v. Hussey
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"It may be admitted that it is sufficient, in the absence of the defense of an alibi, to charge and prove that the act was committed on or about a certain date, and within three years next preceding the filing of the information, but when the complaining witness has fixed the exact time when the act charged was committed, and the defense is an alibi, the commission of the crime on the exact date so fixed is the controlling issue, and the jury should be instructed that they must find the act to have been committed at that time. State v. Morden, 87 Wash. 465 , 151 P. 832 ." State v. Severns, supra; State v. Coffelt, supra.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“subsequent instructions the crime charged was clearly and specifically defined to the jury”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he importance of these rules of practice, which we have held to be mandatory and not directory, is apparent. Their purpose is to give to the trial court the benefit of the study and research of counsel, and to advise the trial court of the contentions of the respective parties as to the law or the facts, at a time when the court can, if it- so desire, correct any error which it may feel it has made in its instructions.”
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.