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28 Wash. App. 462 - State v. Cain’s Empirical Analysis

1981

Citation profile

16
cited by 16 later decisions
4
states following
July 2017
most recently cited

15 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently July 2017

15 state decisions

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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 91 Wash. 2d 301 - State v. Wanrow · State v. Gay · 89 Wash. 2d 23 - Strenge v. Clarke · 92 Wash. 2d 35 - State Ex Rel. McDonald v. Whatcom County District Court · 66 Wash. 2d 243 - State v. Reid

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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “(1) ‘Sexual intercourse’ (a) has its ordinary meaning and occurs upon any penetration, however slight, and (b) Also means any penetration of the vagina or anus however slight, by an object, when committed on one person by another. .. .”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “[w]ords in statutes are to be understood in their ordinary and popular sense.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “[a] finger is an object within the meaning and intent of the statute.”
    1 later decision 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.