98 Wash. App. 422 - State v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently November 2021
15 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 90 Wash. 2d 443 - State v. Workman · 93 Wash. 2d 510 - State v. Shipp · 119 Wash. 2d 657 - State v. Davis · 101 Wash. 2d 355 - State v. Allen · 67 Wash. App. 891 - State v. Walden
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`[A] touching may be unlawful because it was neither legally consented to nor otherwise privileged, and was either harmful or offensive.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Stevens · State v. Stevens“[f]irst, each of the elements of the lesser offense must be a necessary element of the offense charged [and,] [s]econd, the evidence in the case must support an inference that the lesser crime was committed.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“any touching of the sexual or other intimate parts of a person done for the purpose of gratifying sexual desire of either party or a third party.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Stevens
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.