State v. Eastmond’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
63 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently March 2020 · most notably 147 Wash. 2d 330 - State v. Brown (2002), State v. Smith (1997)
63 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 Nebraska v. Wyoming · Payless Wholesale Distributor, Inc. v. Albert Culver (P.R.) Inc. · 110 Wash. 2d 682 - State v. Scott · 120 Wash. 2d 631 - State v. Benn · 98 Wash. 2d 484 - State v. McCullum
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[b]y relieving the State of its burden of proving every essential element beyond a reasonable doubt, the omission of an element of the crime produces such a fatal error. . . . The trial court here likewise committed reversible error by failing to provide a specific intent instruction.” Id. at 503. State v. Byrd, 125 Wn.2d 707 , 887 P.2d 396 (1995), also involved the failure to instruct the jury on the intent element for assault. 125 Wn.2d at 714-15. In conclusion, the Court stated:”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“To convict the defendant of the crime of Bail Jumping as charged, each of the following elements of the crime must be proved beyond a reasonable doubt. (1) That on or about the 30th day of October, 1997, the defendant knowingly failed to appear before a court; (2) That the defendant had been released by court order or admitted to bail with the requirement of a subsequent personal appearance before that court regarding a felony matter-, and (3) That the acts occurred in the County of Lewis, State of Washington.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Pope · State v. Pope“By omitting an element of the crime of assault, the trial court here committed an error of constitutional magnitude.”
2 later decisions 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.