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State v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis

1998

Citation profile

31
cited by 31 later decisions
1
states following
November 2018
most recently cited

31 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably State v. Brightman (2005), State v. Walker (1998)

31 state decisions

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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 · 98 Wash. 2d 484 - State v. McCullum · State v. Berlin · 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “`is in imminent danger of death or great bodily harm, and it appears to him that only an ordinary battery is all that is intended,'”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “[i]n essence, Walker took a knife to a fistfight.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  3. “If the trial court refused to give a self-defense instruction because it found no evidence supporting the defendant's subjective belief of imminent danger of great bodily harm, an issue of fact, the standard of review is abuse of discretion. If the trial court refused to give a self-defense instruction because it found no reasonable person in the defendant's shoes would have acted as the defendant acted, an issue of law, the standard of review is de novo.”
    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.