State v. Bash’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
123 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 124 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably Cockle v. Dept. of Labor and Industries (2001), In Re Marriage of Littlefield (1997)
123 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 Morissette v. United States · United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · Staples v. United States · Liparota v. United States · United States v. X-Citement Video, Inc.
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 124 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“even at the cost of convicting innocent-minded and blameless people”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“'Other things being equal, the greater the possible punishment, the more likely some fault is required; and, conversely, the lighter the possible punishment, the more likely the legislature meant to impose liability without fault.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“(8) "Exhibits vicious propensities" means: (a) The infliction of a bite, or bites, on a human being or a domestic animal, either on public or private property.”
3 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.