111 Wash. 2d 105 - State v. St. Pierre’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently January 2014 · most notably 67 Wash. App. 339 - State v. Lynn (1992), State v. Roberts (2001)
40 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 Bruton v. United States · Ohio v. Roberts · Pointer v. Texas · California v. Green · Bourjaily v. United States
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is a fundamental right in our criminal justice system.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[W]here a nontestifying codefendant’s confession incriminating the defendant is not directly admissible against the defendant [citation omitted] ... the Confrontation Clause bars its admission at their joint trial, even if the jury is instructed not to consider it against the defendant, and even if the defendant’s own confession is admitted against him.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Sanchez“out-of-court statements from a nontestifying codefendant made against penal interests and which inculpate the defendant are admissible against the defendant only when they bear adequate indicia of reliability.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Crawford
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.