23 Wash. App. 756 - State v. Fischer’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently October 2019
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 13 Wash. 2d 485 - Peasley v. Puget Sound Tug & Barge Co. · State v. Miller · 7 Wash. App. 505 - State v. Murphy · 66 Wash. 2d 273 - State v. Ladiges · 89 Wash. 2d 63 - State v. Penn
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“' "manifestly apparent to the average juror.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“Necessity must... be considered by the jury standing in the shoes of the defendant. The applicable standard is that persons may use that degree of force necessary to protect themselves as a reasonably prudent man or woman would use under the conditions appearing to them at the time.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Therefore, the court's instruction can stand only if it included the essential element that the person using the force need only reasonably believe, in light of all the facts and cireumstanees known to him, that he or another person is in danger.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Imokawa
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.