State v. Woods’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently July 2023
7 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 Strickland v. Washington · In the Matter of Samuel Winship · 127 Wash. 2d 322 - State v. McFarland · 88 Wash. 2d 221 - State v. Wanrow · 95 Wash. 2d 385 - State v. Theroff
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A person is entitled to act on appearances in defending himself, if that person believes in good faith and on reasonable grounds that he is in actual danger of great bodily harm, although it afterwards might develop that the person was mistaken as to the extent of the danger. Actual danger is not necessary for the use of force to be lawful.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Kyllo“there was no strategic or tactical reason for counsel's proposal of an instruction that incorrectly stated the law [and] eased the State of its proper burden of proof on self-defense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Kyllo
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.