100 Wash. 2d 131 - State v. Ferguson’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
65 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently March 2022 · most notably 115 Wash. 2d 60 - State v. Camarillo (1990), State v. Troupe (1996)
65 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 87 Wash. 2d 374 - State v. Arndt · 96 Wash. 2d 591 - State v. Tharp · 98 Wash. 2d 358 - State v. Saltarelli · 93 Wash. 2d 823 - State v. Cunningham · 78 Wash. 2d 121 - State v. Golladay
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`will not reverse on the basis that the evidence should have been excluded under a different rule which could have been, but was not, argued at trial.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[s]uch evidence [to be] admitted for the purpose of showing the lustful inclination of the defendant toward the offended female, which in turn makes it more probable that the defendant committed the offense charged.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]o require [the victim] to pinpoint the exact dates of oft-repeated incidents of sexual contact would be contrary to reason.”
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.