46 Wash. App. 280 - State v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently January 2004
4 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 95 Wash. 2d 385 - State v. Theroff · 100 Wash. 2d 188 - Brown v. FIRE PROTEC. DIST. · 76 Wash. 2d 398 - Johnston v. Ohls · 94 Wash. 2d 520 - State v. Mark · State v. Cushing
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Evidence of the defendant's good character may be sufficient to raise a reasonable doubt whether the defendant is guilty, where doubt would otherwise not exist.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“fully, fairly and carefully considering all of the evidence”
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.