66 Wash. 2d 698 - State v. Sayward’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently August 2001
16 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 61 Wash. 2d 107 - State v. Robinson · 63 Wash. 2d 485 - State v. Sayward · 64 Wash. 2d 491 - State v. Ingle · 57 Wash. 2d 295 - State v. Harvey · 27 Wash. 2d 186 - State v. Lindsey
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.
“(1) When the death of any person shall ensue within three years as a proximate result of injury received by the driving of any vehicle by any person while under the influence of or affected by intoxicating liquor . . . the person so operating such vehicle shall be guilty of negligent homicide by means of a motor vehicle.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.