69 Wash. 2d 928 - State v. Harris’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently February 2017 · most notably 92 Wash. 2d 671 - State v. Johnson (1979), In Re Personal Restraint of Andress (2002)
2 federal appellate · 46 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 People v. Wagner · State v. Diebold · State v. Shaffer · 14 Wash. 2d 138 - State v. Rush · State v. McFadden
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(1) Committed with a design to effect the death of the person killed or of another, but without premeditation; or “(2) When perpetrated by a person engaged in the commission of, or in an attempt to commit, or in withdrawing from the scene of, a felony other than those enumerated in RCW 9.48.030. “Murder in the second degree shall be punished by imprisonment in the state penitentiary for not less than ten years.””
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“`the precedent felony, if an assault on the person killed, is merged in the resulting homicide.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“In Washington, the felony murder must occur in the commission of, an attempt to commit, or in withdrawing from the scene of a felony, and must not be separate, distinct, and independent from it. State v. Diebold, 152 Wash. 68, 277 [P.] 394 (1929). Our legislature further avoided the merger problem by specifically designating the felonies which result in a first or second-degree felony murder charge. Since an assault felony comes within the ambit of second-degree murder, the state must prove intent and premeditation in order to secure a first-degree murder conviction. Thus the rationale behind the New York merger rule is not applicable in Washington.”
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.