54 Wash. App. 467 - State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently November 2004
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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Wong Sun v. United States · Opper v. United States · Smith v. United States · State v. Parker
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.
“"In assessing the sufficiency of the proof of the corpus delicti ..., [the reviewing court must] assume the truth of the State's evidence and all reasonable inferences therefrom in a light most favorable to the State." State v. Smith, 54 Wash.App. at 473, 774 P.2d 519 [ [5] ] (citing Corbett, at 571, 723 P.2d 1135 ; State v. Neslund, 50 Wash. App. 531, 544, 749 P.2d 725 , review denied, 110 Wash.2d 1025 (1988)). Corpus delicti "can be established by either direct or circumstantial evidence." State v. Lung, 70 Wash.2d 365, 371 , 423 P.2d 72 (1967).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Powers“(1) actually intended to take a life; and (2) took a substantial step toward the commission of the act. RCW 9A.28.020(1); RCW 9A.32.030(1)(a).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The independent evidence need not [have been] sufficient to support a conviction or even to send the case to the jury.”
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.