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← 33 Wash. App. 579 - State v. Russell

33 Wash. App. 579 - State v. Russell’s Empirical Analysis

1983

Citation profile

32
cited by 32 later decisions
1
states following
December 2007
most recently cited

3 federal appellate · 29 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently December 2007 · most notably Russell v. Rolfs (1990), State v. Berlin (1997)

3 federal appellate · 29 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 Green v. United States · 87 Wash. 2d 374 - State v. Arndt · 96 Wash. 2d 816 - State v. Franco · 84 Wash. 2d 256 - State v. Carothers · 96 Wash. 2d 383 - State v. Hartzog

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

  1. “(1) A person is guilty of murder in the second degree when: (a) With intent to cause the death of another person but without premeditation, he causes the death of such person or of a third person; or (b) He commits or attempts to commit any felony other than those enumerated in RCW 9A.32.030(1)(c), and, in the course of and in furtherance of such crime or in immediate flight therefrom, he, or another participant, causes the death of a person other than one of the participants....”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “`[t]he prohibited acts may inhere in the same transaction'”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  3. “[Tjhere may be many factors that will aid the court, such as [1] the title of the act; [2] whether there is a readily perceivable connection between the various acts set forth; [3] whether the acts are consistent with and not repugnant to each other; [4] and whether the acts may inhere in the same transaction.”
    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.