103 Wash. 2d 812 - State v. Casal’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently January 2012 · most notably 64 Wash. App. 410 - State v. Walton (1992), 116 Ill. 2d 133 - People v. Lucente (1987)
40 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 Franks v. Delaware · Roviaro v. United States · McCray v. State of Illinois · United States v. Moore · United States v. King
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“casts 'a reasonable doubt on the veracity of material representations made by the affiant'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he privilege must yield to the defendant's need to know the informant's identity in cases where the informant is a material witness on the question of a defendant's guilt or innocence. In such a case, the State must disclose to the defendant the identity of the informant if the trial court determines that the defendant's interest in disclosure outweighs the public interest in nondisclosure. See State v. Harris, 91 Wn.2d 145, 151 , 588 P.2d 720 (1978).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“to the in camera proceeding. Grano, A Dilemma for Defense Counsel: Spinelli-Harris Search Warrants and the Possibility of Police Perjury, 1971 U. Ill. L.F. 405. Accordingly, we have recently endorsed the in camera examination of the affiant and/or secret informant in a situation where the police claim they have relied on a secret informant to establish probable cause and the defendant challenges the existence of the informant or the veracity of the officer-affiant. State v. Wolken, 103 Wn.2d 823 , 700 P.2d 319 (1985). The court in State v. Casal, supra at 820 fashioned a rule which”
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.