42 Wash. App. 120 - State v. Arthur’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently February 2020 · most notably 106 Wash. 2d 176 - State v. Hughes (1986), State v. Riley (1999)
29 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 97 Wash. 2d 92 - State v. White · 71 Wash. 2d 583 - State v. Piche · State v. Turpin · 102 Wash. 2d 242 - State v. Richmond · 16 Wash. App. 195 - State v. Upton
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No person may by any unlawful act create a necessity for acting in self-defense and thereupon use, offer or attempt to use force upon or toward another person. Therefore, if you find beyond a reasonable doubt the defendant was the aggressor and that defendant's acts and conduct provoked or commenced the fight, then self-defense is not available as a defense.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[f]ew situations come to mind where the necessity for an aggressor instruction is warranted. The theories of the case can be sufficiently argued and understood by the jury without such instruction.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“`jury could reasonably assume would provoke a belligerent response by the victim.'”
3 later decisions 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.