55 Wash. App. 261 - State v. Nicholas’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently March 2025
12 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 Faretta v. California · Bounds v. Smith · 110 Wash. 2d 403 - State v. Kitchen · Robert C. Gilliard, Jr. v. Mississippi · United States v. Wilson
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) A person is guilty of robbery in the first degree if: (a) In the commission of a robbery or of immediate flight therefrom, he or she: (i) Is armed with a deadly weapon; or (ii) Displays what appears to be a firearm or other deadly weapon.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“armed with a deadly weapon or displayed what appeared to be a firearm or other deadly weapon.”
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.