State v. Blaine’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently May 1985 · most notably 35 Wash. 2d 1 - Gruen v. State Tax Commission (1949), 7 Wash. App. 505 - State v. Murphy (1972)
30 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. Pepoon · Ross v. State · State v. Churchill · Marston v. Humes · State v. Rutten
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Premeditated means thought over beforehand, for any length of time, however short. When a person after deliberation once forms a design to take human life, after ample time and opportunity for deliberate thought, then no matter how soon the felonious killing may follow the formation of the settled purpose, it will be murder in the first degree. Premeditated malice exists when the intention unlawfully to kill is deliberately formed in the mind and the determination thought over and reflected upon before the fatal blow is struck (no particular space of time, however, need intervene between the formation of the intent to kill and the killing)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Every person convicted of a crime shall be a competent witness in any civil or criminal proceeding, but his conviction may be proved for the purpose of affecting the weight of his testimony, either by the record thereof, or a copy of such record duly authenticated by the legal custodian thereof, or by other competent evidence, or by his cross-examination, upon which he shall answer any proper question relevant to that inquiry, and the party cross-examining shall not be concluded by his answer thereto. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Nichols““An Act relating to crimes and punishments and the rights and custody of persons accused or convicted of crime, and repealing certain acts.””
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.