30 Wash. 2d 601 - State v. Baker’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently May 2016
8 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. Peeples · Lawler v. Commonwealth · State v. Buttry
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.
“To convict the defendant of the crime of rape . . . the state must prove to you beyond a reasonable doubt: (1) That on or about . . . the defendant willfully, unlawfully and feloniously against her will and without her consent did perpetrate an act of sexual intercourse with . . . a female person . . . and not the wife of the defendant; (2) That the resistance of ... to such act of sexual intercourse was either: (a) forcibly overcome; or (b) prevented by fear of immediate and great bodily harm which she had reasonable cause to believe would be inflicted upon her; and (3) That the above-mentioned acts occurred in King County, Washington.”
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.