89 Wash. 2d 38 - State v. Blight’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
88 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 88 later decisions — most recently May 2021 · most notably 127 Wash. 2d 322 - State v. McFarland (1995), State v. Smith (1988)
88 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 Chapman v. State of California · In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Williams v. People of State of New York · Schneble v. Florida · 79 Wash. 2d 12 - State Ex Rel. Carroll v. Junker
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 88 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`manifestly unreasonable, or exercised on untenable grounds, or for untenable reasons.'”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage“proceeded on a case-by-case basis, considering the manner in which each presumption encroaches upon defendant's due process rights under the facts of the particular case.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[W]e have recognized that criminal statutory presumptions which supply some proof of the element of a crime may operate to shift the burden of proof from the State to the defendant and thus deny him due process of law. We also have said that a statutory presumption will be deemed unconstitutional if the State does not retain the burden of proving, beyond a reasonable doubt, all elements of the crime. Consequently, we have held that to meet the test of constitutionality the presumed fact must flow beyond a reasonable doubt from the proven fact upon which it is made to depend. State v. Odom, 83 Wn.2d 541, 548 , 520 P.2d 152 (1974).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.