State v. Head’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently January 2025 · most notably State v. Stein (2001), 98 Wash. App. 600 - State v. Hescock (1999)
50 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 State v. Hendrickson · State v. Tomal · State v. Alvarez · 85 Wash. 2d 29 - State v. Williams · 93 Wash. 2d 454 - State v. Dailey
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In a case tried without a jury, the court shall enter findings of fact and conclusions of law. In giving the decision, the facts found and the conclusions of law shall be separately stated. The court shall enter such findings of fact and conclusions of law only upon 5 days' notice of presentation to the parties.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Otis · State v. Otis“of errors not subject to harmless error analysis). ¶ 40 We decline to follow Crider, Aguilar-Rivera, or Gonzales . We initially note the long standing rule that a court's oral opinion is no more than an oral expression of the court's informal opinion at the time rendered; it is”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hatchie“Whenever a sentence outside the standard sentence range is imposed, the court shall set forth the reasons for its decision in written findings of fact and conclusions of law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hyder
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.