101 Wash. 2d 772 - State v. Coe’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
143 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 143 later decisions — most recently April 2024 · most notably 105 Wash. 2d 692 - State v. Kwan Fai Mak (1986), 120 Wash. 2d 631 - State v. Benn (1993)
143 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 Frye v. United States · Williams v. Florida · Washington v. Confederated Bands & Tribes of the Yakima Indian Nation · Williams v. United States · Baldwin v. New York Williams
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 143 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“only if the method employed in the commission of both crimes is `so unique' that proof that an accused committed one of the crimes creates a high probability that he also committed the other crimes with which he is charged.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage“[c]areful consideration and weighing of both relevance and prejudice is particularly important in sex cases, where the potential for prejudice is at its highest.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“Evidence of other crimes, wrongs, or acts is not admissible to prove the character of a person in order to show that he acted in conformity therewith. It may, however, be admissible for other purposes, such as proof of motive, opportunity, intent, preparation, plan, knowledge, identity, or absence of mistake or accident.”
4 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.