76 Wash. 2d 368 - State v. Nass’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently August 2010 · most notably 105 Wash. 2d 175 - State v. Ammons (2005), 126 Wash. 2d 136 - State v. Brett (1995)
31 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 10 E.H. Smith 541 - People v. . Sickles · State Ex Rel. Edelstein v. Huneke · State v. Dale · State v. Kirkpatrick · 1 Wash. 2d 530 - State v. Harkness
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is obvious that evidence of former convictions is so prejudicial in its nature that its tendency to unduly influence the jury in its deliberations regarding the substantive offense outweighs any legitimate probative value it might have in establishing the probability that the defendant committed the crime charged.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Where a factor aggravates an offense and causes the defendant to be subject to a greater punishment than would otherwise be imposed, due process requires that the issue . . . must be presented to the jury . . . before the court can impose the harsher penalty.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“sale to or other transaction with a minor”
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.