4 Wash. App. 908 - State v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently March 2021 · most notably 91 Wash. 2d 466 - State v. Foster (1979), State v. Jackson (1999)
3 federal appellate · 28 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 Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. Reddish · 55 Cal. 2d 88 - People v. Robillard · People v. . Pierson · 13 Wash. 2d 673 - In Re the Welfare of Hudson · United States v. Eichberg
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]e therefore hold that the violation of the parental duty to furnish medical care to a minor dependent child, the other elements of manslaughter being present, is a sufficient basis on which to rest a conviction of the crime of manslaughter....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“natural duty existing independently of statutes”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Ordinary caution is the kind of caution that a man of reasonable prudence would exercise under the same or similar conditions. If, therefore, the conduct of a defendant, regardless of his ignorance, good intentions and good faith, fails to measure up to the conduct required of a man of reasonable prudence, he is guilty of ordinary negligence because of his failure to use “ordinary caution.” See State v. Hedges, supra.”
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.