State v. Warden’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently January 2024 · most notably State v. Berlin (1997), State v. Fernandez-Medina (2000)
41 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 Beck v. Alabama · 90 Wash. 2d 443 - State v. Workman · 120 Wash. 2d 631 - State v. Benn · 115 Wash. 2d 609 - State v. Dennison · State v. Berlin
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Diminished capacity is a mental condition not amounting to insanity which prevents the defendant from possessing the requisite mental state necessary to commit the crime charged.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Ellis · State v. Bottrell“[i]f the evidence would permit a jury to rationally find a defendant guilty of the lesser offense and acquit him of the greater.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“(d) ... A person is criminally negligent or acts with criminal negligence when he fails to be aware of a substantial risk that a wrongful act may occur and his failure to be aware of such substantial risk constitutes a gross deviation from the standard of care that a reasonable man would exercise in the same situation.”
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.