State v. Harstad

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• a defendant’s sexual purpose was inferred from contextual facts such as body positioning, state of undress, statements, and conduct
• A jury may determine that “parts of the body in close proximity to the primary erogenous areas” are intimate parts and that the defendant placing his hand on the victim’s upper inner thigh area constituted touching an “intimate part.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

3 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Bakunczyk
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2012-08-17· cited 8×
• United States v. Thompson
  Ninth Circuit· 2025-02-10· cited 2×
• State Of Washington v. Chadwick Kalebaugh
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2014-02-11

Cites

27 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Connally v. General Construction Co.
  Supreme Court· 1926-01-04· cited 3,272×
• State v. McFarland
  Washington Supreme Court· 1995-09-13· cited 2,396×
• State v. Kirkman
  Washington Supreme Court· 2007-04-05· cited 747×
• City of Spokane v. Douglass
  Washington Supreme Court· 1990-08-23· cited 388×
• Matter of Personal Restraint of Rice
  Washington Supreme Court· 1992-05-07· cited 355×
• State v. Crane
  Washington Supreme Court· 1991-01-31· cited 189×
• State v. Atsbeha
  Washington Supreme Court· 2001-02-01· cited 174×
• State v. Joy
  Washington Supreme Court· 1993-04-29· cited 164×
• State v. Allen
  Washington Supreme Court· 1967-03-09· cited 115×
• State v. Renfro
  Washington Supreme Court· 1982-01-15· cited 108×
• State v. Watson
  Washington Supreme Court· 2007-04-05· cited 93×
• Olderbak v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1992-11-02· cited 90×
• State v. Garrett
  Washington Supreme Court· 1994-09-09· cited 78×
• State v. Townsend
  Washington Supreme Court· 2001-01-04· cited 77×
• State v. Fitzgerald
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1985-01-11· cited 75×
• State v. Powell
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1991-09-17· cited 67×
• In Re the Welfare of Adams
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1979-10-24· cited 58×
• State v. Brooks
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1986-09-30· cited 56×
• State v. Woodley
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1988-08-30· cited 48×
• State v. Jackson
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2008-07-14· cited 47×