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← 50 Wash. App. 755 - State v. Harmon

50 Wash. App. 755 - State v. Harmon’s Empirical Analysis

1988

Citation profile

17
cited by 17 later decisions
1
states following
August 2018
most recently cited

17 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently August 2018

17 state decisions

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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 109 Wash. 2d 207 - State v. Dunaway · 106 Wash. 2d 514 - State v. Nordby · 108 Wash. 2d 419 - State v. Fisher · 106 Wash. 2d 525 - State v. Oxborrow · 106 Wash. 2d 547 - State v. Armstrong

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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “a violent, vicious act of deliberate cruelty.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “'jumping around like a chicken with his head cut off — running around the house and trying to hold onto his throat'”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “shot the victim, partially left the room, and returned to shoot him again”
    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.