97 Wash. 2d 801 - State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently June 2021
21 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 43 Wash. 2d 23 - State v. Moorison · State v. Hardung · 96 Wash. 2d 301 - State v. Froehlich · 71 Wash. 2d 434 - State v. Wyse · 30 Wash. App. 251 - State v. Smith
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where there has been no such [adjudication of insanity], the burden is on the party opposing the witness to prove incompetence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. SJW · State v. SJW“incapable of receiving just impressions of the facts”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“total lack of comprehension or the inability to distinguish between right and wrong.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Johnston
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.