State v. Hernandez’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently February 2011
5 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 · 126 Wash. 2d 244 - State v. Powell · 95 Wash. 2d 385 - State v. Theroff · 125 Wash. 2d 847 - State v. Lough · 98 Wash. 2d 358 - State v. Saltarelli
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is a defense to a charge of murder that the homicide was excusable as defined in this instruction. Homicide is excusable when committed by accident or misfortune in doing any lawful act by lawful means, without criminal negligence, or without any unlawful intent. The State has the burden of proving the absence of excuse beyond a reasonable doubt. If you find that the State has not proved the absence of this defense beyond a reasonable doubt, it will be your duty to return a verdict of not guilty.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hernandez“he said she was in the kitchen, she was like far away from him. And then he said he was getting closer, she fell on the floor, and he thought that she passed out because she was scared when she heard the shot. He was yelling, and then he dropped the gun, put it on top of the counter, and he was trying to see if she can respond, and he say that he saw the shot in the chest....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hernandez“Yes. Well, I, I really, really didn't, didn't think about being accused. I was, I was worried about what would happen to her because she, I, I didn't think, it, she was going to die. I, I `cause she, she had tried to kill herself before.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hernandez
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.