109 Wash. 2d 760 - State v. Hancock’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently April 2013 · most notably 53 Wash. App. 754 - State v. Madison (1989), State v. Yates (2007)
25 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 Zant v. Stephens · Francis v. United States · 101 Wash. 2d 664 - State v. Rupe · United States v. Morlang · United States v. Palacios
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The trial court did not err in permitting Detective Ostrander to testify about the substance of the out-of-court statement made to him by [the defendant’s wife]. Since she did give testimony which affirmatively supported the defense, the subsequent impeachment of her testimony was proper.[ 41 ]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[w]here a defendant's ownership of a gun is relevant to an issue at stake in the trial, we recognize no special rule that would prevent that evidence from being admitted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Yates“[t]he essential inquiry is one of relevance”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Luther
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.