7 Wash. App. 818 - State v. Mearns’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently June 1995
9 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 56 Wash. 2d 846 - State v. Baker · 79 Wash. 2d 512 - State v. Randecker · 78 Wash. 2d 491 - State v. Jacobsen · 47 Wash. 2d 640 - State v. Partridge · 79 Wash. 2d 469 - State v. Engstrom
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To convict the defendant of the crime of negligent homicide ... the state must prove beyond a reasonable doubt: .... (2) That the defendant then operated this motor vehicle while under the influence of, or affected by intoxicating liquor; and (3) That the operation of the motor vehicle by defendant was the proximate cause of the injury ...”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“To convict the defendant Kim V. Fateley, of the crime of negligent homicide, the State must prove to you beyond a reasonable doubt: 1. That the defendant, Kim V. Fateley, on or about the 9th day of August, 1975, while in Okanogan County did operate a motor vehicle; 2. That at the time of the defendant's operation of the motor vehicle one or more of the following was true of the defendant: a. The defendant operated the vehicle in a reckless manner, b. The defendant operated the vehicle with disregard for the safety of others, c. The defendant was under the influence of or affected by intoxicating liquor. 3. That the condition or conditions found to be true under two (2) above did proximately cause the defendant to fail to negotiate a curve and drive over an embankment and 4. That the death of Gregory Riley did ensue within three years as the proximate result of the injury received in the accident. The term "proximate cause" means that cause which in a direct, unbroken sequence produces the death in question and without which such death would not have occurred or happened.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“(1) When the death of any person ensues within three years as a proximate result of injury proximately caused by the driving of any vehicle by any person while under the influence of intoxicating liquor or any drug, as defined by RCW 46.6-1.502, or by the operation of any vehicle in a reckless manner or with disregard for the safety of others, the person so operating such vehicle is guilty of vehicular homicide.”
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.