39 Wash. App. 460 - State v. Harris’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently August 2010
16 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 Jackson v. Indiana · 99 Wash. 2d 373 - Diamond v. Cross · 97 Wash. 2d 118 - Human Rights Commission v. Cheney School District No. 30 · 41 Wash. 2d 133 - State Ex Rel. Evans v. Brotherhood of Friends · 92 Wash. 2d 35 - State Ex Rel. McDonald v. Whatcom County District Court
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.
“`Washington courts have repeatedly construed the word "any”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“Whenever any person has been committed under any provision of this chapter, or ordered to undergo alternative treatment following his acquittal of a crime charged by reason of insanity, such commitment or treatment cannot exceed the maximum possible penal sentence for any offense charged for which he was acquitted by reason of insanity.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“provides that a statutory ambiguity in a criminal case should be resolved in favor of the defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. REANIER
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.