98 Wash. 2d 111 - State v. McKim’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently February 2015 · most notably 105 Wash. 2d 175 - State v. Ammons (2005), 105 Wash. 2d 692 - State v. Kwan Fai Mak (1986)
46 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 Mullaney v. Wilbur · 90 Wash. 2d 443 - State v. Workman · People v. Reese · 93 Wash. 2d 31 - In Re the Personal Restraint of Carle · 95 Wash. 2d 629 - State v. Claborn
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“for the deadly weapon enhancement provision to apply to an unarmed codefendant, the State must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the accused knew his or her accomplice was armed with a deadly weapon at the time of the commission of the crime.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“'if one of the two participants is armed with a . . . deadly weapon, then both are considered to be so armed.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“Deadly weapon special verdict Definition. In a criminal case wherein there has been a special allegation and evidence establishing that the accused or an accomplice was armed with a deadly weapon at the time of the commission of the crime, the court shall make a finding of fact of whether or not the accused or an accomplice was armed with a deadly weapon at the time of the commission of the crime, or if a jury trial is had, the jury shall, if it find[s] the defendant guilty, also find a special verdict as to whether or not the defendant or an accomplice was armed with a deadly weapon at the time of the commission of the crime.”
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.