Atchley v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently August 2012
21 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 State v. London · 55 Wash. 2d 469 - State v. Collins · State v. Gloyd · State v. Davidson · State v. Morf
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Negligent homicide “(a) When the death of any person ensues within one year as a proximate result of injury received by the driving of any vehicle in reckless disregard of the safety of others, the person so "operating such vehicle shall be guilty of negligent homicide. “(b) Any person convicted of negligent homicide shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than one year or by fine of not less than One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) nor more than One Thousand Dollars ($1,-000.00), or by both such fine and imprisonment. “(c) The Commissioner of Public Safety shall revoke the license or permit to drive and any nonresident operating privilege of any person convicted of negligent homicide. Laws 1961, p. 387, § 11-903.””
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. White v. State · Warden v. State““Every killing of one human being by the act, procurement or culpable negligence of another, which, under the provisions of this chapter, is not murder, nor manslaughter in the first degree, nor excusable nor justifiable homicide, is manslaughter in the second degree.” (Emphasis added)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““We . . . hold that Title 47 O.S. [1961], § 903, supersedes the Manslaughter statutes, 21 O.S. [1961], § 716, as it pertains to death by the criminal negligence of another by the driving of an automobile.” [Emphasis Added]”
2 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.