Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently August 2017
8 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 56 Wash. 2d 846 - State v. Baker · State v. Sisneros · 79 Wash. 2d 469 - State v. Engstrom · Banks v. State · State v. Bowser
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No person may be convicted of Negligent Homicide unless the State proves beyond a reasonable doubt each element of the crime. These elements are: First, the death of a human being; Second, caused by the defendant driving a vehicle upon a highway: Third, in reckless disregard of the safety of others. Reckless disregard of the safety of others is the omission to do something which a reasonable careful person would do, or the lack of the usual and ordinary care and caution in the performance of an act usually and ordinarily exercised by a person under similar circumstances and conditions. (O.R. 131)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hames v. State“While contributory negligence on the part of decedent was not a defense, the court should have instructed the jury that the decedent's negligence, if shown, should be considered with all the other evidence to determine whether the negligence of the defendant was the proximate cause of the killing or whether defendant's act or omission was culpably negligent under the circumstances.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hames v. State“Terms used in instructions should be defined by the court where they have a technical meaning, or may be misapplied by the jury; but where the terms are in common use and are such as can be understood by a person of ordinary intelligence they need not be defined or explained in the absence of anything in the charge to obscure their meaning. Id. At 846. (Citation omitted).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Oxley v. State
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.