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← 98 Wash. App. 765 - State v. Williams

98 Wash. App. 765 - State v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis

2000

Citation profile

12
cited by 12 later decisions
1
states following
October 2004
most recently cited

12 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Watts v. United States · Crisp v. Rubin · Colonial Village, Inc. v. Spann · 94 Wash. 2d 216 - State v. Green · 106 Wash. 2d 54 - State v. Gunwall

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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “(1) A person is guilty of harassment if: (a) Without lawful authority, the person knowingly threatens: (i) To cause bodily injury in the future [1] to the person threatened or to any other person; or . . . . (iv) Maliciously to do any other act which is intended to substantially harm the person threatened or another with respect to his or her physical or mental health or safety; and (b) The person by words or conduct places the person threatened in reasonable fear that the threat will be carried out....”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “to communicate directly or indirectly the intent ... [t]o cause bodily injury in the future to the person threatened or to any other person[.]”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “a state whereby one's mind is free from disease or defect and functions normally.”
    1 later decision 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.