State v. Washington’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently December 1994
6 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 Wenzler v. Pitchess · Johnson v. United States · Fuller v. United States · United States v. Whitaker · People v. Mussenden
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[T]here are other reasons for retaining the restrictions on the defendant's right to request lesser included offense instructions. The first, of course, is that in this state the statutes [ORS 136.460 and ORS 136.465] seem to preclude instructions which do not have a basis either in the statutory framework or in the indictment itself. Second, we feel that, even in the absence of those statutes, the interests of judicial administration would require the continuance of the present limitations on the defendant's right to lesser included offense instructions. If defendant's approach were to be adopted, we believe that trial courts would be receiving requests for instructions limited only by the imagination and ingenuity of the defendant. Requests for such instructions would act only to further complicate the jury's decision-making process. * * * [They] would not only needlessly prolong the court's instructions, but would also add to the number of issues which the jury would be required to considerthereby substantially increasing the possibility for jury confusion and compromise verdicts." 273 Or at 839 . (Footnote omitted.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"The jury may find the defendant guilty of any offense, the commission of which is necessarily included in that with which he is charged in the indictment, or of an attempt to commit the offense."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Thompson“that to be necessarily included in the greater offense `the lesser offense must be such that it is impossible to commit the greater without having committed the lesser.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Thompson
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.