63 Wash. App. 252 - State v. Ritola’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently November 2021
10 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 502 So. 2d 819 - Moore v. State · West v. State · 54 Wash. App. 521 - State v. McKnight · Alexander 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'Forcible compulsion' means physical force which overcomes resistance, or a threat, express or implied, that places a person in fear of death or physical injury to herself or himself or another person, or in fear that she or he or another person will be kidnapped.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Atkins · State v. Burke“more force than the force normally used to achieve sexual intercourse or sexual contact”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[i]n the absence of forcible compulsion, however, sexual contact with a non-impaired adult is not a sexual offense within RCW 9A.44, even though it occurs without that adult's consent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Buzzell
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.