8 Wash. App. 719 - State v. Welsh’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently March 2010
18 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 33 Cal. 2d 52 - People v. Hardy · 60 Wash. 2d 551 - State v. White · 81 Wash. 2d 628 - State v. Frazier · People v. Williams · People v. Martin
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is not necessary to plead mental irresponsibility in order to prove lack of intent. Evidence of mental disease or defect which falls short of criminal insanity is admissible if relevant to prove lack of specific intent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a condition of mental cloudiness or unconscious automatic behavior. During such a seizure, there is no conscious intent to perform acts done.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“it was possible defendant experienced a psychomotor seizure at the time of the alleged assault.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Mitchell
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.