40 Wash. App. 658 - State v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently October 2013
17 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 88 Wash. 2d 221 - State v. Wanrow · 98 Wash. 2d 484 - State v. McCullum · 101 Wash. 2d 591 - State v. Allery · 101 Wash. 2d 612 - State v. Acosta · 99 Wash. 2d 95 - Thomas v. French
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“That the defendant is a victim of a battering relation ship is riot alone sufficient evidence to submit the issue of self-defense to a jury.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“The evidence must establish a confrontation or conflict, not instigated or provoked by the defendant, which would induce a reasonable person, considering all the facts and circumstances known to the defendant, to believe that there was imminent danger of great bodily harm about to be inflicted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[s]ome evidence of aggressive or threatening behavior, gestures, or communication by the victim before defendant's use of force ... to show that the defendant had reasonable grounds to believe there was imminent danger of great bodily harm.”
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.