6 Wash. App. 284 - State v. Birdwell’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently August 2009 · most notably 88 Wash. 2d 75 - State v. McKinnon (1977), 105 Wash. 2d 257 - In Re the Personal Restraint of Myers (1986)
45 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 Carroll v. United States · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Chambers v. Maroney · Sedillo v. United States · Leary v. United States
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“stressed the necessity for the record to reveal a basis for the exercise of the discretionary determination and [has] indicated where this basis is present, [it] will hold that discretion is abused only where it can be said no reasonable man would take the view adopted ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[G]iving an instruction on a party's theory of the case is required provided there is evidence to support it,... and the failure to do so, or the giving of otherwise incomplete instructions, constitutes reversible error.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Tiegs v. Watts“[I]t is permissible to supply proof of some elements by use of presumptions which, if unrebutted, allow but do not compel the trier of fact to find the presumed fact on the basis of proved facts.”
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.