92 Wash. 2d 162 - State v. Bauer’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently July 2017
14 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 Mullaney v. Wilbur · United States v. Murdock · Mary P. Laffey v. Northwest Airlines, Inc., Air Line Pilots Association, Non-Aligned Party. Mary P. Laffey v. Northwest Airlines, Inc., Air Line Pilots Association, Non-Aligned Party · 88 Wash. 2d 221 - State v. Wanrow · 88 Wash. 2d 337 - State v. Roberts
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] requirement that an offense be committed wilfully is satisfied if a person acts knowingly with respect to the material elements of the offense.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[ w ]ilfully omits, without lawful excuse, to furnish necessary food ... for his or her child.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Id. at 167-68 . The court noted: The focus of the statute is on the lack of a lawful excuse. Any malice on the part of the parent is irrelevant. The intent of the legislature thus appears to be to punish those parents who knowingly fail to support their children where they have no lawful excuse, such as economic inability, for doing so. The focus is not on the parent's malicious state of mind, but rather on their knowing conduct and lack of excuse. Id. at 168 . Bauer, as the majority properly does, then found this approach consistent with the definition of”
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.