94 Wash. 2d 569 - State v. Savage’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently March 2022 · most notably 98 Wash. 2d 484 - State v. McCullum (1983), 101 Wash. 2d 612 - State v. Acosta (1984)
31 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 · Morissette v. United States · Sandstrom v. Montana · County Court of Ulster Cty. v. Allen · 88 Wash. 2d 221 - State v. Wanrow
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An error in instructions is harmless if it is 'trivial, or formal, or merely academic, and was not prejudicial to the substantial rights of the party assigning it, and in no way affected the final outcome of the case.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Due process prohibits the use of a conclusive or irrebuttable presumption to find an element of a criminal offense, because such use of a conclusive presumption "would `conflict with the overriding presumption of innocence with which the law endows the accused and which extends to every element of the crime,' and would `invade [the] factfinding function' which in a criminal case the law assigns solely to the jury."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“to argue to the jury that the State [bears] the burden of proving absence of self-defense.”
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.