Washington v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently May 2017 · most notably Snyder v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts (1934), 133 So. 2d 729 - Spencer v. State (1961)
1 federal appellate · 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 Mitchum v. State · Louisville, New Albany & Chicago Railway Co. v. Buck · Shular v. State · State v. Howard · 10 E.H. Smith 286 - People v. . Thorn
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The answer of the deceased complained of was made within two minutes of the fatal shooting. It does not appear that there was time or motive for the fabrication of a story, and we think the time was so short that it precludes the idea of deliberate design on the part of deceased. In the light of the rule and authorities as above quoted the response of the deceased was a part of the res gestae, and was competent testimony.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Any attempt to pervert or misstate the evidence or to influence the jury by the statement of facts or conditions not supported by the evidence should be rebuked by the trial court, and, if by such misconduct a verdict was influenced, a new trial should be granted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“there is therefore no ground, either upon legal principle or upon practical fairness, for holding the presence of the accused himself to be essential.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.