54 Wash. App. 521 - State v. McKnight’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently November 2021
16 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 42 Cal. 3d 284 - People v. Barnes
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“physical force which overcomes resistance, or a threat, express or implied, that places a person in fear of death or physical injury,”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“A person is guilty of rape in the third degree when, under circumstances not constituting rape in the first or second degrees, such person engages in sexual intercourse with another person, not married to the perpetrator . . . [w]here the victim did not consent as defined in RCW 9A.44.010(7)[ 2 ] to sexual intercourse with the perpetrator and such lack of consent was clearly expressed by the victim’s words or conduct.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Corey“A person is guilty of rape in the second degree when, under circumstances not constituting rape in the first degree, the person engages in sexual intercourse with another person . . . [b]y forcible compulsion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Corey
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.