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← 8 WASHAPP 388 - State v. Childs

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.

  1. “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
  2. “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.