92 Wash. 2d 541 - State v. King’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently May 2021 · most notably 98 Wash. 2d 484 - State v. McCullum (1983), 101 Wash. 2d 591 - State v. Allery (1984)
29 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 Patterson v. New York · 91 Wash. 2d 466 - State v. Foster · 88 Wash. 2d 337 - State v. Roberts · 73 Wash. 2d 533 - State v. Dana · 20 Wash. App. 340 - State v. Bradley
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“as a means to mitigate his culpability for unlawful homicide. The court stated, at page 206, that:”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The killing of a human being is justifiable when committed in the lawful defense of the slayer when there is reasonable ground to apprehend a design on the part of the person slain to commit a felony or to do some great personal injury to the slayer and there is imminent danger of such design being accomplished. One attacked has the right to repel force with force, but the use of excessive force by the slayer does not excuse or justify a homicide.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[tjhat the killing, not being either excusable or justifiable, was done with the intent to cause the death,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Imokawa
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.