State v. Becker’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
68 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2024 · most notably Uttecht v. Brown (2007), State v. Tili (1999)
68 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 94 Wash. 2d 216 - State v. Green · Pauley v. Beth-Energy Mines, Inc. · Knapp v. United States · 110 Wash. 2d 682 - State v. Scott · Fleet Factors Corp. v. United States
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“matters of fact have been established as a matter of law.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage“Judges shall not charge juries with respect to matters of fact, nor comment thereon, but shall declare the law.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“conveying to the jury his or her personal attitudes toward the merits of the case”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Higgins · State v. Eaker
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.