58 Wash. 2d 159 - State v. Turner’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently April 1998
7 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 State v. Pisano · State v. Pienick · State v. Needham · State v. Royce · State v. Buckingham
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The corpus delicti of the crime of arson consists of two elements: (1) that the building in question burned;- and (2) that it burned as the result of the willful and criminal act of some person.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Kindred
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.