80 Wash. App. 217 - State v. Mills’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
29 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 924
Relies on Carnegie v. United States · United States v. Stewart · 96 Wash. 2d 215 - State v. Williams · 95 Wash. 2d 385 - State v. Theroff · 122 Wash. 2d 270 - State v. Valdobinos
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] person is armed with a deadly weapon if, at the time of the commission of the crime, the weapon is easily accessible and readily available for offensive or defensive use.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Gurske · State v. Miller“Whether a person is armed is a mixed question of law and fact.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“In a criminal case wherein there has been a special allegation and evidence establishing that the accused ... was armed with a deadly weapon at the time of the commission of the crime, ... the jury shall, if it find[s] the defendant guilty, also find a special verdict as to whether or not the defendant ... was armed with a deadly weapon at the time of the commission of the crime.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Schelin
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.