70 Wash. 2d 326 - State v. Snider’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently March 2021 · most notably 90 Wash. 2d 443 - State v. Workman (1978), 106 Wash. 2d 176 - State v. Hughes (1986)
42 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 30 Wash. 2d 76 - State v. McDaniels · 4 Wash. 2d 437 - State v. Gallagher · 53 Wash. 2d 387 - State v. Davis · State ex rel. Walter v. Superior Court · 20 Wash. 2d 455 - State v. Kirkby
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]n essential function of the fact finder is to discount theories which it determines unreasonable because the finder of fact is the sole and exclusive judge of the evidence, the weight to be given thereto, and the credibility of witnesses.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“basis in the evidence produced at trial positively inferring that the lesser crime was committed....”
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.