58 Wash. App. 621 - State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 109 Wash. 2d 207 - State v. Dunaway · 109 Wash. 2d 947 - Allingham v. City of Seattle · 108 Wash. 2d 419 - State v. Fisher · 106 Wash. 2d 525 - State v. Oxborrow · 108 Wash. 2d 125 - State v. Pascal
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.
“unpredictable, irrational violence, committed without warning, [is] particularly insidious . . . [and is] especially destructive of society's sense of security.”
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.