87 Wash. App. 57 - State v. Fields’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently May 2016
9 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 67 Wash. App. 339 - State v. Lynn · 95 Wash. 2d 385 - State v. Theroff · 114 Wash. 2d 867 - State v. Henderson · 112 Wash. 2d 347 - State v. Neher · 128 Wash. 2d 896 - State v. LeFaber
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The fact that [the defendant] proposed much the same instruction is no bar to his challenge to it, for he also proposed a curative instruction that was not given and, thus, did not invite the error that he complains of now. . . . The trial court in [the defendant’s] case gave WPIC 16.02 verbatim to the jury, consistent with [the defendant’s] request. [The defendant] had, however, additionally requested an instruction identical to WPIC 16.07 as a curative instruction, and the trial court rejected that request. Thus the ambiguous language of WPIC 16.02 was unmitigated, and “the jury might have understood a self-defense claim to require a showing that actual harm was imminent.” Because “the fatal ambiguity resulted from the State’s successful objection to the clarifying instruction that [the defendant] proposed,” [the defendant] cannot be said to have invited the error he complains of.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Homicide is justifiable when committed in the lawful defense of the defendant or any person in the defendant’s presence or company when the defendant reasonably believes that the person slain intends to inflict death or great personal injury and there is imminent danger of such harm being accomplished.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the fatal ambiguity resulted from the State's successful objection to the clarifying instruction that Fields proposed,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Studd
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.