94 Wash. 2d 520 - State v. Mark’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
83 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 83 later decisions — most recently October 2024 · most notably 120 Wash. 2d 631 - State v. Benn (1993), 96 Wash. 2d 473 - Mark v. Seattle Times (1981)
83 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 73 Wash. 2d 533 - State v. Dana · People v. Bendit · 80 Wash. 2d 47 - State v. Stiltner · State v. Cushing · 89 Wash. 2d 651 - State v. Allen
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 83 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“And we indicated that the proposed instruction was vulnerable, at least to some extent, to an objection that it might mislead the jury.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“it correctly states the law, is not misleading, and permits counsel to argue his theory of the case.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Poling · State v. Brooks“create a doubt as to the guilt of the defendant. This court held that although such instructional language is a correct statement of the law, it is not error to omit the”
2 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.