State v. JM’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 137 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 142 later decisions — most recently January 2025 · most notably State, Dept. of Ecology v. Campbell & Gwinn (2002), 154 Wash. 2d 118 - State v. Hughes (2005)
3 federal appellate · 137 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2252
Relies on Rav v. City of St Paul Minnesota · Watts v. United States · United States v. X-Citement Video, Inc. · Yates v. Gober · Cockle v. Dept. of Labor and Industries
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 142 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the statute's meaning is plain on its face, then courts must give effect to its plain meaning as an expression of what the Legislature intended.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“"in a context or under such circumstances wherein a reasonable person would foresee that the statement would be interpreted... as a serious expression of an intention to inflict bodily harm upon or to take the life of [another individual]."”
6 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Schaler · State v. Kilburn“[T]he perpetrator knowingly threaten to inflict bodily injury by communicating directly or indirectly the intent to inflict bodily injury; the person threatened must find out about the threat although the perpetrator need not know nor should know that the threat will be communicated to the victim; and words or conduct of the perpetrator must place the person threatened in reasonable fear that the threat will be carried out.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.