State v. Walden’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently April 2011 · most notably State v. Studd (1999), State v. Walker (1998)
1 federal appellate · 28 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 88 Wash. 2d 221 - State v. Wanrow · 101 Wash. 2d 591 - State v. Allery · 91 Wash. 2d 466 - State v. Foster · 121 Wash. 2d 220 - State v. Janes · 101 Wash. 2d 612 - State v. Acosta
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`[g]reat bodily injury as used in this instruction means injury of a graver and more serious nature than an ordinary battery with a fist or pounding with the hand; it is an injury of such nature as to produce severe pain, suffering and injury.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Walden · State v. Kyllo“[a] jury instruction misstating the law of self-defense amounts to an error of constitutional magnitude and is presumed prejudicial.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Burkhart · State v. Woods“[b]y defining [great bodily injury] to exclude ordinary batteries, a reasonable juror could read [the instruction] to prohibit consideration of the defendant's subjective impressions of all the facts and circumstances, i.e., whether the defendant reasonably believed the battery at issue would result in great personal 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.