47 Wash. App. 605 - State v. James’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently December 2010
13 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 98 Wash. 2d 484 - State v. McCullum · 101 Wash. 2d 612 - State v. Acosta · 102 Wash. 2d 120 - State v. Rice · 100 Wash. 2d 417 - State v. Griffin · 42 Wash. App. 53 - State v. Fuller
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Unlike self-defense, intoxication causing diminished capacity is not a "true" defense to a criminal act. A criminal act committed by a voluntarily intoxicated person is not justified or excused.... The fact of intoxication may raise a reasonable doubt as to the mental state element of the State's case, thus leading to an acquittal or conviction for a lesser included offense. But, unlike self-defense, intoxication or diminished capacity does not add an additional element to the charged offense.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Sao · State v. SAO
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.