27 Wash. App. 708 - State v. Painter’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently October 2021 · most notably 106 Wash. 2d 176 - State v. Hughes (1986), 101 Wash. 2d 591 - State v. Allery (1984)
39 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 Little v. Oregon · 88 Wash. 2d 221 - State v. Wanrow · 91 Wash. 2d 466 - State v. Foster · 74 Wash. 2d 888 - State v. Lampshire · State v. Churchill
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“' "manifestly apparent to the average juror.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“'[great personal injury]’ means an injury of a more serious nature than an ordinary striking with the hands or fists” the trial court . . . injected an impermissible objective standard into the instructions .... Painter, 27 Wn. App. at 712 . The court explained:”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Walden · State v. Walden“`It is well within the realm of common experience that an `ordinary striking with the hands or fists' might inflict [great personal injury], depending upon the size, strength, age, and numerous other factors of the individuals involved.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Walden · State v. Irons
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.