66 Wash. App. 770 - State v. Hillman’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently April 2015 · most notably 126 Wash. 2d 388 - State v. Ritchie (1995), Gardner v. Loomis Armored, Inc. (1996)
24 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 106 Wash. 2d 514 - State v. Nordby · 117 Wash. 2d 701 - State v. Barnes · 117 Wash. 2d 211 - State v. Grewe · 116 Wash. 2d 777 - State v. Batista · 109 Wash. 2d 896 - State v. Knighten
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although murder itself offends fundamental notions of morality, to murder a person who comes to one's aid discourages others from offering aid to persons in need of help. The ramifications to a civilized society are indeed disturbing.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“It has long been the policy of our law to protect the `Good Samaritan'.... Washington has adopted a `Good Samaritan' statute which provides immunity against civil liability for those who render emergency care at the scene of an emergency, unless they commit gross negligence or willful or wanton misconduct.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hooper“We note factors that may not in themselves be sufficient to justify the imposition of an exceptional sentence may be considered by the sentencing judge in determining the length of the sentence, provided those reasons are related to the defendant's culpability.”
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.