69 Wash. 2d 120 - State v. Lewis’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently August 2001 · most notably 73 Wash. 2d 271 - State v. Davis (1968), 123 Wash. 2d 467 - State v. Dent (1994)
26 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 67 Wash. 2d 681 - State v. Willis · Williams v. State · 36 Wash. 2d 641 - State v. Leach · 55 Wash. 2d 490 - State v. Christensen
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.
“The state, in a prosecution for an attempted crime, must prove that the defendant actually intended to commit the target crime, and that he performed an overt act directed toward its commission. There must be a unity of intent and overt act. Both elements must coincide. State v. Christensen, 55 Wn.2d 490 , 348 P.2d 408 (1960); State v. Leach, 36 Wn.2d 641 , 219 P.2d 972 (1950); 1 Wharton, Criminal Law and Procedure § 71, p. 152 (1957); 21 Am. Jur. 2d Criminal Law § 110 (1965).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A case in point, though not from our jurisdiction, is Williams v. State, 209 Miss. 902, 909 , 48 So.2d 598 (1950), where it was said: The rule is well recognized that “whenever the design of a person to commit crime is clearly shown, slight acts done in furtherance of this design will constitute an attempt”.”
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.