110 Wash. 2d 738 - State v. Gonzalez’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably 120 Wash. 2d 822 - State v. Blackwell (1993), Port of Seattle v. PCHB (2004)
47 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 Brady v. State of Maryland · Barker v. Wingo · Hickman v. Taylor · Pennsylvania v. Ritchie · United States v. Valenzuela-Bernal
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Upon a showing [1] that a prospective witness may be unable to attend or prevented from attending a trial or hearing or if a witness refuses to discuss the case with either counsel and [2] that his testimony is material and [3] that it is necessary to take his deposition in order to prevent a failure of justice, the court at any time after the filing of an indictment or information may upon motion of a party and notice to the parties order that his testimony be taken by deposition and that any designated books, papers, documents or tangible objects, not privileged, be produced at the same time and place.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Mankin · State v. Mankin“the civil rules can be instructive in matters of procedure for which the criminal rules are silent.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“CrR 4.7 sets out the exact obligations of the prosecutor and defendant in engaging in discovery, the detail of which suggests to us that no further supplementation should be sought from the civil rules.”
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.