105 Wash. 2d 228 - State v. Zwicker’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently December 2016 · most notably 112 Wash. 2d 890 - Gonzales v. Department of Licensing (1989), 127 Wash. 2d 580 - State v. Bostrom (1995)
30 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 Schmerber v. State of California · South Dakota v. Neville · 103 Wash. 2d 165 - State v. Ryan · 96 Wash. 2d 816 - State v. Franco · 93 Wash. 2d 823 - State v. Cunningham
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he refusal of a person to submit to a test of the alcoholic content of the person's blood or breath under RCW 46.20.308 is admissible into evidence at a subsequent criminal trial.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“may be used against him in any subsequent criminal trial.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“where the defendant opens the controversy by contending there was a lack of credibility or competence on the part of the police (failure to adhere to normal procedures). The refusal is relevant under circumstances where it can qualify or disprove contentions raised by the defendant. See State v. Demos, 94 Wn.2d 733 , 619 P.2d 968 (1980).”
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.