87 Wash. App. 440 - State v. Cervantes’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
7
cited by 7 later decisions
1
states following
June 2012
most recently cited
7 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Estelle v. McGuire · Victor v. Nebraska · Cage v. Louisiana · Young v. Harper · Fidelity Mutual Life Ass'n v. Mettler
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the many reported cases examining reasonable doubt instructions illustrate the difficulties presented in drafting nonstandard instructions”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Castillo“a fanciful or ingenious doubt or conjecture.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Castillo
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.