State v. Washington’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
October 1956
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on John McNamara v. William Henkel · State v. Kimbrough · State v. Epes · State v. Kimbrell · State v. Baker
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`But all that we should require of circumstantial evidence is that there shall be positive proof of the facts from which the inference of guilt is to be drawn, and that inference is the only one which could reasonably be drawn from the facts. All the circumstances taken together must point in the direction of guilt to a moral certainty to the exclusion of any other reasonable hypothesis'.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Q. Did you know who had that shoe on? A. Not at the time.”
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.