26 Wash. 2d 394 - State v. Lew’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently May 1981
10 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 State v. Stevenson · State v. Deatherage · State v. Kaukos · State v. Stentz · State v. Roberts
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Admissions or confessions made by a defendant charged with crime, when such admissions or confessions are not caused by duress or fear produced by threats, are to be considered by the jury in connection with all the other evidence in the case in determining the guilt or innocence of the accused, and their weight as evidence, like that of any other fact, is to be determined by you alone. If you find that any such admissions or confessions have been made in this case, you have a right, in weighing such testimony, to consider all facts and circumstances connected therewith, together with the defendant’s interest, if any, in the transaction, and his knowledge, if he had any, of the circumstances surrounding the same, and all other circumstances which may throw any light upon or aid you in weighing such testimony.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“If you are convinced by the evidence in this case beyond a reasonable doubt that the act alleged as the crime with which the defendant is here charged was in fact committed, and you further find that immediately or soon thereafter the defendant fled from the place where such act is alleged to have been committed, then the flight of the defendant is a circumstance to be considered by the jury, together with the other evidence in the case. It is not sufficient in itself to establish the guilt of the defendant, but its weight as evidence is a matter for the jury to determine in connection with all the other facts in the case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Evidence is admissible that, sifter the commission of crime, the accused fled and concesiled himself as if to elude justice or endeavor to avoid arrest; or, after arrest, attempted to effect his escape.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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