49 Wash. 2d 244 - State v. Sewell’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently June 2002
14 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.
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Every person who, with intent to commit some crime therein, shall break and enter any building, or part thereof, wherein any property is kept for use, sale or deposit, shall be guilty of burglary in the second degree.”
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.