20 Wash. App. 882 - State v. Robinson’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently August 2011
9 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 38 Wash. 2d 774 - State v. Thompson · State v. Pahl · Smith v. City of Fort Dodge · City of Temple v. Mitchell
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘Substantial’ is here used as an adjective to mean a Teal’ or ‘material’ interference with the liberty of another as contrasted with a petty annoyance, a slight inconvenience, or an imaginary conflict. ... It intended more serious conduct than stopping someone on the street in a mistaken belief as to the person’s identity or facetiously pushing an elevator button so as to take another occupant beyond the floor which he or she intended to go. Yet, unlawful imprisonment was to be a lesser offense than kidnapping as that crime is now defined.” 20 Wash. App. at 884-85 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`real' or `material' interference with the liberty of another as contrasted with a petty annoyance, a slight inconvenience, or an imaginary conflict.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Washington“without consent and without legal authority in a manner which interferes substantially with [her] liberty.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Washington
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.