7 Wash. App. 329 - State v. Alexander’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently November 2013
20 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 73 Wash. 2d 533 - State v. Dana · State v. Turpin · State v. Adamo · 72 Wash. 2d 1029 - Turner v. City of Tacoma · 78 Wash. 2d 92 - Laudermilk v. Carpenter
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“trial court has considerable discretion in how the instructions are worded.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[Instructions should not be so factually detailed as to emphasize certain aspects of a party's case and thus point up or buttress his argument to the jury, but rather should be limited to enunciating basic and essential elements of the legal rules necessary to enable the parties to each present their theories of the case.”
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.