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105 Wash. 2d 889 - State v. John Doe’s Empirical Analysis

1986

Citation profile

37
cited by 37 later decisions
6
states following
February 2003
most recently cited

1 federal appellate · 36 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently February 2003 · most notably 114 Wash. 2d 613 - State v. Swan (1990), 22 Cal. 4th 1227 - In Re Lucero L. (2000)

1 federal appellate · 36 state decisions

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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 103 Wash. 2d 165 - State v. Ryan · 100 Wash. 2d 188 - Brown v. FIRE PROTEC. DIST. · 76 Wash. 2d 398 - Johnston v. Ohls · Lancaster v. People · 80 Cal. App. 3d 738 - People v. Orduno

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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[t]he child either: (a) Testifies at the proceedings; or (b) Is unavailable as a witness....”
    5 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. 48 Wash. App. 840 - State v. Hunt · 50 Wash. App. 709 - State v. Jones
  2. “[r]eliability does not depend on whether the child is competent to take the witness stand, but whether the [contents of] and circumstances surrounding the statement indicate it is reliable.”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. 48 Wash. App. 840 - State v. Hunt · 22 Cal. 4th 1227 - In Re Lucero L.
  3. “The concept of a confrontable witness was addressed by the court in State v. Doe, 105 Wash.2d 889, 895 , 719 P.2d 554, 557 (1986) (citation omitted): While the concepts of availability and competency do not overlap entirely, it is quite clear that an incompetent child is not available. The term”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Matter of ADB · 45 Wash. App. 728 - State v. Griffith

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.