18 Wash. App. 304 - State v. Stepp’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently December 1999
11 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 Mullaney v. Wilbur · 88 Wash. 2d 337 - State v. Roberts · 87 Wash. 2d 829 - State v. Kroll · 73 Wash. 2d 533 - State v. Dana · 73 Wash. 2d 67 - State v. Miles
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The killing of a human being, unless it is excusable or justifiable, is murder in the second degree when—”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“When a defendant claims that he or she killed another in the defense of his or her own person, the burden is upon the defendant to prove that the homicide was done in self-defense. However, it is not necessary for the defendant to prove this to you beyond a reasonable doubt, nor by a preponderance of the evidence. The defendant sustains this burden of proof if from a consideration of all the evidence in the case you have a reasonable doubt as to whether or not the killing was done in self-defense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“to prove that the homicide was done in self defense”
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.