State v. Childs’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
August 2000
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 79 Wash. 2d 512 - State v. Randecker · 79 Wash. 2d 469 - State v. Engstrom · State v. Bozovich
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The cause of death is a question of fact for the jury to decide from all the facts and circumstances. It is generally customary to introduce expert medical testimony to establish the cause of death; however, proof thereof need not be confined to that character of testimony.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“proof of the cause of death does not depend solely upon expert medical testimony”
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.