82 Wash. App. 122 - State v. Dunn’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently May 2016 · most notably State v. Jackson (1999), State v. Martinez (2006)
38 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 107 Wash. 2d 346 - State v. Knapstad · 125 Wash. 2d 212 - State v. Wilson · 117 Wash. 2d 576 - State v. Roberts · 120 Wash. 2d 196 - State v. Simon · 55 Wash. App. 852 - State v. Creekmore
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The crime of criminal mistreatment is created. Parents and persons to whom the physical custody of children are entrusted may be charged for failure to provide food, shelter, clothing, or health care. Persons entrusted with the care of physically or mentally disabled dependents may also be charged. In addition, persons entrusted with the care of dependents of extreme advanced age may be charged for failure to provide care. Reckless failure to provide food, shelter, clothing, or health care which results in serious permanent disfigurement or a permanent loss or impairment of body parts or organs, is a class B felony. Reckless failure to provide food, etc., which creates a substantial risk of death or permanent injury, or which causes temporary but substantial disfigurement or impairment, is a class C felony.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“). Considering the Legislature's broad, almost plenary, authority to define crimes, the fact that it did not specifically define”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“created an imminent and substantial risk of death or great bodily harm”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. McGary
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.