79 Wash. 2d 512 - State v. Randecker’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
80 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably 94 Wash. 2d 216 - State v. Green (1980), 94 Wash. 2d 634 - State v. Delmarter (1980)
80 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 78 Wash. 2d 491 - State v. Jacobsen · 74 Wash. 2d 386 - State v. White · 81 Cal. App. 2d 110 - People v. Cooper · 66 Wash. 2d 278 - State v. Holbrook · State v. Donckers
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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) The function of the trial or appellate court in reviewing a sufficiency question is to determine whether there is “substantial evidence” to support either the state’s case or the particular element involved. (2) In considering the evidence, we must assume the truth of the state’s evidence and view it most strongly against the defendant, allowing the state the benefit of all reasonable inferences. (3) Where the case is based entirely upon circumstantial evidence, the trial or appellate court’s function is not to determine whether the circumstances are consistent only with the hypothesis that the accused is guilty. Such determination is for the jury. The court’s only function is to determine whether there is “substantial evidence” tending to establish circumstances on which a finding of guilt may be predicated.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“The fact that a trial or appellate court may conclude the evidence is not convincing, or may find the evidence hard to reconcile in some of its aspects, or may think some evidence appears to refute or negative guilt, or to cast doubt thereon, does not justify the court's setting aside the jury's verdict.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“it is unnecessary for the court to be satisfied of the defendant's guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.”
4 later decisions 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.