95 Wash. 2d 536 - State v. Hall’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 82 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 85 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably 99 Wash. 2d 413 - State v. Vladovic (1983), 104 Wash. 2d 497 - State v. Smith (1985)
3 federal appellate · 82 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 · 94 Wash. 2d 216 - State v. Green · 93 Wash. 2d 186 - State v. Stephens · 87 Wash. 2d 175 - State v. Burri · 93 Wash. 2d 751 - State v. Tongate
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 85 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A reviewing court should not pass on constitutional issues unless absolutely necessary to the determination of the case.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“[w]ith these facts before us, we have no hesitancy in holding the jury could have reached no result other than that the crimes charged herein occurred while the appellant was armed with a deadly weapon and a firearm.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“It is undisputed that guns were in fact seen, guns were in fact used and real bullets were in fact fired.”
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.