58 Wash. 2d 746 - State v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently March 1983
3 federal appellate · 14 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 Casey v. United States · State v. Kelly · Parker v. State · Everett v. State of Indiana · Powers v. State
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The distinction must be kept in mind: that the statute does not make the possession of a pistol without a license evidence of the commission of crime, but evidence of intent. This inference of intent is, of course, rebuttable; but, more important, it is not conclusive even if no attempt is made to rebut it. It is sufficient evidence to take the case to the jury on the issue of intent, but the jury is not obligated to attach any weight to it. It considers it for what it may be worth. State v. Person, supra.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“This court recognized, as early as State v. Fitzpatrick (1927), 141 Wash. 638 , 251 Pac. 875 , and as recently as State v. Person (1960), 56 Wn. (2d) 283, 352 P. (2d) 189 , that the legislature may declare that the proof of one fact shall be prima facie evidence of another. The only restriction on this power is that the fact proved must bear a rational connection to the ultimate fact presumed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“We hold that there is a rational connection between carrying pistols without a license and intending crimes of violence, and, consequently, the questioned statute[ 2 ] is constitutional.”
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.