109 Wash. 2d 336 - State v. Black’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 140 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 145 later decisions — most recently August 2021 · most notably 120 Wash. 2d 879 - State v. Cauthron (1993), 90 Ohio App. 3d 338 - State v. Martens (1993)
3 federal appellate · 140 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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 14 Cal. 3d 864 - People v. Rincon-Pineda · State v. Middleton · State v. Rusk · State v. Kim · Commonwealth v. Bailey
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 145 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If scientific, technical, or other specialized knowledge will assist the trier of fact to understand the evidence or to determine a fact in issue, a witness qualified as an expert by knowledge, skill, experience, training, or education, may testify thereto in the form of an opinion or otherwise.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“as a scientifically reliable means of proving”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“directly conflicting emotional manifestations which are referred to as `styles,'”
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.