49 Wash. App. 78 - State v. Amezola’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
2 district · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently May 2016 · most notably State v. McDonald (1999), 76 Wash. App. 496 - State v. Collins (1995)
2 district · 28 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 Daniel v. Security Pacific National Bank · 94 Wash. 2d 216 - State v. Green · 104 Wash. 2d 412 - State v. Guloy · 101 Wash. 2d 566 - State v. Petrich · 87 Wash. 2d 374 - State v. Arndt
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“determine whether the jury based its verdict on constructive possession or accomplice liability because instruction 8, the `to-convict' instruction, allowed the jury to convict on either of these theories. Where, as here, the jury is presented with alternative means of committing a crime, jury unanimity is not required [as to which means upon which to convict] as long as there is substantial evidence of both alternatives.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“A challenge to the sufficiency of the evidence to convict cannot be sustained if, considering the evidence in the light most favorable to the State, a rational trier of fact could have found all of the elements of the crime charged beyond a reasonable doubt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“To make an arrest in criminal actions, the officer may break open any outer or inner door, or windows of a dwelling house or other building, or any other inclosure, if, after notice of his office and purpose, he be refused admittance.”
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.