93 Wash. 2d 186 - State v. Stephens’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
130 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 130 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably 115 Wash. 2d 60 - State v. Camarillo (1990), 101 Wash. 2d 566 - State v. Petrich (1984)
130 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 Chapman v. State of California · 90 Wash. 2d 443 - State v. Workman · 88 Wash. 2d 221 - State v. Wanrow · 87 Wash. 2d 374 - State v. Arndt · 91 Wash. 2d 466 - State v. Foster
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 130 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in no way affected the final outcome of the case.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“able to declare a belief that it was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The instruction, in effect, split the action into two separate crimes (assault against Jahnke and assault against Heieck), while the information charged only one.” Id. at 190 . Because alternative crimes were charged in the”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.