46 Wash. App. 325 - State v. Ratliff’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently February 2011 · most notably State v. Pirtle (1995), 55 Wash. App. 852 - State v. Creekmore (1990)
27 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 Sandstrom v. Montana · Leary v. United States · County Court of Ulster Cty. v. Allen · Francis v. Franklin · 106 Wash. 2d 514 - State v. Nordby
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) A person is guilty of malicious mischief in the second degree if he or she knowingly and maliciously: (a) Causes physical damage to the property of another in an amount exceeding two hundred fifty dollars; or (b) Creates a substantial risk of interruption or impairment of service rendered to the public, by physically damaging or tampering with an emergency vehicle or property of the state, a political subdivision thereof, or a public utility or mode of public transportation, power, or communication.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A permissive inference is valid when there is a "rational connection" between the proven fact and the inferred fact, and the inferred fact flows "more likely than not" from the proven fact.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“in addition to its ordinary meaning ... any diminution in the value of any property as the consequence of an act.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Newcomb
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.