State v. Easterlin’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently July 2021
1 federal appellate · 14 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 McCarthy v. United States · Henderson v. Morgan · 147 Wash. 2d 330 - State v. Brown · 87 Wash. 2d 501 - Wood v. Morris · 83 Wash. 2d 594 - State v. Taylor
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[s]o long as the facts and circumstances support an inference of a connection between the weapon, the crime, and the defendant, sufficient evidence exists”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“There was . . . ample evidence from which a trier of fact could find Easterlin was armed to protect the drugs.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Reed“if a weapon is easily accessible and readily available for use, either for offensive or defensive purposes,'”
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.