State v. Bright’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently September 2015 · most notably State v. Fernandez-Medina (2000), State v. Myers (1997)
54 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 119 Wash. 2d 192 - State v. Salinas · 90 Wash. 2d 443 - State v. Workman · 94 Wash. 2d 634 - State v. Delmarter · 119 Wash. 2d 504 - City of Pasco v. Public Employment Relations Commission · 85 Wash. 2d 758 - State v. Gosby
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[U]nder circumstances not constituting rape in the first or second degrees, such person engages in sexual intercourse with another person, not married to the perpetrator: (a) Where the victim did not consent as defined in RCW 9A.44.010(7), to sexual intercourse with the perpetrator and such lack of consent was clearly expressed by the victim's words or conduct.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Higgins · State v. Higgins“[c]ircumstantial evidence provides as reliable a basis for findings as direct evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. O'MEARA
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.