State v. Dyson’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently May 2023
10 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 Weingarden v. United States · 98 Wash. 2d 484 - State v. McCullum · 95 Wash. 2d 385 - State v. Theroff · 101 Wash. 2d 612 - State v. Acosta · Lawson v. Boeing Co.
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[B]ecause a person who acts in self-defense is not `fail[ing] to be aware of a substantial risk that a wrongful act' may occur, self-defense negates the requirement of a `wrongful act.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Woods · State v. Lewis“It is a defense to a charge of third degree assault that the force used was lawful as defined in the instruction. The use of force upon or toward the person of another is lawful when used by a person who reasonably believes that he is about to be injured in preventing or attempting to prevent and when the force is not more than is necessary. The person using the force may employ such force and means as a reasonably prudent person would use under the same or similar conditions as they appeared to the person, taking into consideration all of the facts and circumstances known to the person at the time of the incident. The State has the burden of proving beyond a reasonable doubt that the force used by the defendant was not lawful. If you find that the State has not proved the absence of this defense beyond a reasonable doubt, it will be your duty to return a verdict of not guilty.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Woods · State v. Woods
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.