67 Wash. 2d 681 - State v. Willis’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently August 2008
23 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 36 Wash. 2d 367 - State v. Goebel · United States ex rel. Weber v. Ragen · State v. Martin · State v. Payne · State v. Walters
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The court instructs the jury that the law presumes that every man intends the natural and probable consequences of his own intentional and voluntary acts. It is not necessary to establish intent by direct and positive evidence, but intent may be established by inference and in the same way as any other fact by taking into consideration the acts of the parties and all the facts and circumstances of the case. “Intent” is a mental condition or process and may be shown by direct proof or may be derived from and established by the attendant facts and circumstances as shown by the evidence. In determining the question of the intent of the defendant at the time of the killing herein alleged, if you find from the evidence that the defendant committed such killing, you may take into consideration the nature and character of the weapon or instrument used, if any; the manner in which such weapon or instrument was used, if at all; the acts and conduct of the defendant, together with all the other facts and circumstances shown by the evidence, and from all these, determine the intent of the defendant in this case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“An “accident” is an event happening without the occurrence of the will of the person by whose agency it was caused. It is an event that takes place without one’s foresight or expectation. An “accident” is not present when a deliberate act is performed, unless some additional, unexpected, independent and unforeseen happening occurs. “Negligence” is an unintentional breach of a legal duty causing damage reasonably foreseeable, without which breach the damage would not have occurred.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The court instructs you that where a homicide is proved beyond a reasonable doubt, the presumption is that it is murder in the second degree, and if the defendant desires to reduce the degree to manslaughter, the burden is on him to produce evidence of those facts or circumstances which call for such reduction.”
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.