11 Wash. App. 566 - State v. Jefferson’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently May 2021 · most notably State v. Copeland (1996), State v. McKenzie (2006)
43 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 United States v. Leonard T. Robinson, United States of America v. James E. McCaffity United States of America v. Louis Johnson · 76 Wash. 2d 650 - State v. Adams · 62 Wash. 2d 309 - State v. Rose · 26 Wash. 2d 468 - State v. Wilson · State v. Navone
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... evidence of flight tends to be only marginally probative as to the ultimate issue of guilt or innocence. The interest of justice is perhaps best served if this matter is reserved for counsel's argument, with little if any comment by the bench.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Grant · State v. Marsh“A decision to avoid trial, although not an impulsive reaction, is nevertheless a circumstance which, if unexplained, might reasonably be considered to be the act of one who is conscious of his guilt.”
2 later decisions 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.