85 Wash. App. 24 - State v. Shelley’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently May 2013 · most notably State v. MacKrill (2008), State v. Stevens (2006)
25 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 45 Cal. 3d 259 - People v. Lucky · 115 Wash. 2d 171 - City of Spokane v. Douglass · Gardner v. Texas · 122 Wash. 2d 109 - State v. Halstien · 125 Wash. 2d 212 - State v. Wilson
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“society has an interest in punishing assaults as breaches of the public peace and order, so that an individual cannot consent to a wrong that is committed against the public peace.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Weber“the correct inquiry is whether the conduct of defendant constituted foreseeable behavior in the consensual sexual intercourse.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Whitfield“An act is not an assault, if it is done with the consent of the person alleged to be assaulted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Jarvis
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.