53 Wash. 2d 632 - State v. Frye’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently August 1982
5 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. Steele · State v. Rubenstein
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]hen and there being armed with a deadly weapon as defined by RCW 9.95.040, to-wit: a sawed-off shotgun, wilfully, unlawfully and feloniously, by force and violence to the person of Charles Walton and by putting the said Charles Walton in fear of injury to his person and against his will, then and there did take from the person and the presence of the said Charles Walton certain personal property, to-wit: approximately $1,500.00 in lawful money of the United States, the property of Safeway Stores, in violation of RCW 9.75.010 and RCW 9.41.025. The jury was instructed, in part: According to the statutes of the State of Washington no act committed by a person while in a state of voluntary intoxication shall be deemed less criminal by reason of his condition, but whenever the actual existence of any particular purpose, motive or intent is a necessary element to constitute a particular species or degree of crime, the fact of his intoxication may be taken into consideration in determining such purpose, motive or intent. You must discriminate between the conditions of mind merely excited by intoxicating drink or drugs, and yet capable of forming a specific intent to commit a crime, and such a prostration of the faculties as renders a man incapable of forming the intent. If an intoxicated person has the capacity to form an intent to commit the crime charged herein and conceives and executes such an intent, it is no defense that he was induced to conceive it, or to conceive it more”
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.